Stopped for a check on the A11, near Prato Est, it was later discovered that he was carrying 63 kilograms of hashish in a false bottom of the car.
The financiers had in fact suspected that the 46-year-old Moroccan, with no criminal record, might be hiding something in the car after noticing structural differences in the cargo compartment compared to the approval standards.
The arrest was then carried out by the soldiers of the financial police of Florence after checks in the barracks. The insights of the military and the nose of Ebryl, the drug-sniffing dog who intervened with his handler,
in fact they made it possible to identify – under the rear floor of the vehicle – a homemade false bottom and inside it to find 61 blocks of hashish.
The driver of the vehicle was arrested in flagrante delicto for drug trafficking and associated with the Sollicciano district house, available to the judicial authorities.
The narcotic would have earned criminal organizations an illicit profit estimated at over 400,000 euros. Investigations are being carried out into the origin of the shipment although it is assumed that the 46-year-old arrived from Northern Europe.
