The Federal Supreme Court has rejected an appeal against two defendants sentenced to life imprisonment and deportation for drug trafficking, confirming the availability of evidence of the crime.
According to information received from the General Directorate of Narcotics Control from a secret source, a person communicating with Asian persons possessing a quantity of narcotic substances was in the process of delivering five kilograms of heroin for 200,000 dirhams to a secret source.
After the search and investigation, the information was verified, the exact permission was obtained, the search and preparation of the ambush was carried out. The members of the ambush moved to the agreed place, the second accused came, met with the secret source, and requested the money, but the source refused until he saw the drug first. After that, the first defendant, carrying two bags, met with the source, put the two bags with the vehicle of the source, and was raided and arrested the defendants.
The prosecution referred the defendants to trial, on charges of possession of heroin, for the purpose of trafficking, and demanded that they be punished. .
This verdict was unacceptable to the defendants and we challenged it, as their defense questioned the evidence, the arrest, search, and witness statements. For its part, the Federal Supreme Court rejected the appeal of the defendants, stressing that the court of full jurisdiction in the collection of understanding of the reality in the case, and the assessment of evidence, including the statements of witnesses, and the introduction of the most likely ones, to reach the indictment rate to the accused without comment. She pointed out that it is evident from the examination of the papers that the preliminary verdict in favor of the appeal judgment showed the fact of the case in which all the elements of the crime for which the accused were convicted are available. The witness testified to him in the investigations of the Public Prosecution.