The hunt by the BNPJ services against money laundering has led to the dismantling, this week, of two new networks operating in kidnapping and sequestration in connection with cryptocurrency in Marrakech and Safi.
An investigation has been opened in Casablanca against a man suspected of being involved in a case of operating a cafe offering shisha without authorization and for attempting to bribe a police commissioner.
The Belgian justice system has decided to open an investigation, after the attack against a Belgian national in Agadir on January 15. The suspect has already been arrested.
Elements of the National Office for the Fight against Economic and Financial Crimes, part of the National Judicial Police Brigade, arrested seven individuals allegedly involved in a criminal network active in kidnapping, sequestration and identity theft regulated by law for the purpose of extortion.
About ten people, including two minors, were arrested for their involvement in clashes between ultra-fans of football clubs that took place in recent days in Casablanca.
Customs agents at the Montauban (Tarn-et-Garonne) toll booth intercepted a go-fast transporting nearly 400 kilos of cannabis resin from Morocco last weekend. A 23-year-old man, known to the justice system, was also arrested and presented before the judge after spending four days in custody.
The judicial police elements of Tiznit succeeded in dismantling a gang of counterfeiters of banknotes, composed of three students.
The police elements carried out a search of the home of the alleged murderer of a French tourist in Agadir. Computer equipment and medical prescriptions were found.
The police elements of Agadir arrested on Saturday, January 15, a 31-year-old individual, suspected of having killed a 79-year-old French woman residing in a campsite near the city of Tiznit and of having assaulted a Belgian woman in Agadir. An investigation is underway to shed light on this case.
The lifeless body of a sexagenarian was found in a plastic bag in the Ben Debbab area of Fez on January 9. The perpetrator, a brother of the victim, was arrested and placed in custody.
The elements of the judicial police of Laâyoune succeeded in arresting a 32-year-old man who was posing as the president of a municipal council in the southern province to defraud entrepreneurs. The investigations continue to dismantle the gang of criminals of which he seems to be the mastermind.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Ain Sebâa has placed in detention a deputy from the Constitutional Union (UC) party accused of defrauding more than 600 million dirhams from a bank and public institutions.