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Drug offences
  • Offences

    • • Distribution/ delivery/ dispatch/ transport
      • Offering/ offering for sale/ sale/ brokerage
      • Purchase/ possession

UNTOC Articles

  • Organized Crime Convention

  • Article 11: Prosecution, adjudication and sanctions
  • Article 12: Confiscation and seizure
  • Trafficking in Persons Protocol

  • Smuggling of Migrants Protocol

  • Firearms Protocol

     

    Original Text

    Article 5:

    Offences against this Dahir shall be liable to the penalties provided for in articles 44 to 48 of the Dahir of 2 December 1922 (12 Rebia II 1341) concerning the import of, trade in, possession and use of toxic substances. The court shall order the confiscation of the toxic substances and may in addition order the confiscation of the means of conveyance and of the objects used for concealing the offence. Nevertheless, in any case in which more than one person was concerned in the use or unlawful manufacture of kif, the confiscation of the substances, utensils and materials seized, as well as the furniture and furnishings of the premises shall be mandatory. If both tobacco and kif were used in the commission of the offence and if the confiscation of the means of conveyance and the objects used for concealing the offence Is ordered, the court shall direct that, in lieu of the penalties provided for in article 81 of the Dahir of 12 November 1932 (12 Rejeb 1351), a sum equivalent to the value of the said means of conveyance and of the objects used for concealing the offence, calculated according to the internal market prices current on the day when the offence was committed, shall be paid to the Tobacco Monopoly.

     
     

    Cross-Cutting Issues

    • Investigation Procedure

      • Confiscation and Seizure of

        • • Proceeds of crime derived from offences covered by the Convention
          • Property, equipment or other instrumentalities
     

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