One of the world’s most wanted hashish smugglers has been captured in Casablanca, Morocco, the Italian police said on Thursday, the highest-profile arrest yet in a three-year anti-trafficking operation that has spanned three continents.
Ben Ziane Berhili, 57, the owner of a large dessert company in Morocco, made the bulk of his income by smuggling 400 tons of hashish to Europe every year, according to Italian investigators.
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