NOUAKCHOTT, Feb. 2 (Xinhua) -- Mauritanian police arrested a Moroccan national suspected of having taken part in the abduction of three Spanish aid workers who were kidnapped on Nov. 29 north of Nouakchott, security sources reported on Monday.

Police nabbed the Moroccan identified as Mahjoubi Rekraki in Nouadhibou on Monday. He was equally suspected of involvement in all kinds of trafficking on behalf of the Al-Qaeda wing in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI). The suspect was immediately transferred to the National Security Center in Nouakchott, police said.

The authorities have made several other arrests on suspicion of AQMI involvement in the north and east of the northwestern African country in recent days.

Among the detainees there are three Western Sahara nationals, who were arrested last week around Bir Mogrein in the extreme north of the country. They were suspected of having commercial links with the kidnappers of the three Spaniards.

A Mauritanian national, Bouh Ould Eweimar, a guard at a mobile telephone company, was also arrested. According to the police, he had kept watch over the vehicle that was used to abduct the Spaniards. The AQMI group has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping.

The arrests were unveiled when a mission of French security and judicial experts just ended a 10-day stay in Nouakchott.

According to well placed sources, the French experts consulted with the Mauritanian security services during the mission on most adequate collaboration between the two countries in the fight against terrorism.