A senior police commissioner and the manager of a bank agency were referred on Saturday to the public prosecutor’s office near the Marrakech Court of Appeal, as part of a case of embezzlement of public funds, corruption and extortion.
The police services of Fez succeeded in arresting an individual accused of defrauding insurance companies by declaring false traffic accidents. A wanted notice had been issued against the accused.
The Civil Guard has, as part of an anti-drug operation, seized more than 500 kilos of hashish hidden in three trucks arriving at the port of Algeciras from Morocco.
Elements of the National Brigade of the Judicial Police (BNPJ) arrested a very influential deputy from Fez . He would be involved in a vast case of land diversion and illegal urban constructions at the level of the rural commune of Oulad Tayeb.
While undergoing training at the mobile barracks of the Royal Gendarmerie of Nouaceur to become a post commander, a gendarmerie sergeant was arrested for his alleged involvement in an international drug trafficking network.
A fkih (religious scholar) in his sixties was arrested in Ain Aouda for regularly abusing an 11-year-old minor. The case has been referred to the investigating judge at the Rabat Court of Appeal.
Elements of the Royal Gendarmerie of Khénifra seized 558 kilograms of cannabis resin hidden in wooden crates. A man who would be involved in this type of trafficking was also arrested.
The gendarmes of Bouguedra, in the province of Safi, arrested a married woman and her two lovers, after an attempted "sextape" blackmail targeting her husband, a wealthy man.
The police arrested a Moroccan residing in Spain after acts of abuse committed on his 10-year-old son. He is accused of having locked the boy in a small room inside a house in Malaga.
The Court of First Instance of Ain Sebaa sentenced the president of a cooperative, his wife and two of his colleagues to prison sentences ranging from 2 to 9 years for fraud and breach of trust.
Accused of sexual assault on underage female students, the Arabic teacher at the Khadija Girls’ High School in Tétouan was arrested and then placed in detention.
A Senegalese and a Guinean were placed in pre-trial detention on Monday by the investigating judge at the Rabat Court of Appeal, for their alleged involvement in the kidnapping of the guard of a farm belonging to a former police prefect.