A Moroccan crime novel is to be adapted for the screen by American, Canadian and Moroccan producers. The Final Bet, by Abdelilah Hamdouchi, will become an international thriller set in Casablanca.
A young Moroccan woman who arrived in France without papers was behind the downfall of Jacques Bouthier, the former head of Assu 2000. Four years after her complaint, the Paris prosecutor’s office has requested that the multimillionaire stand trial for rape and trafficking of a minor.
Morocco passes the American budget transparency test, unlike Algeria. In its new global report, Washington considers that Rabat meets its minimum requirements, while Algiers remains among the governments that do not comply with them.
In Morocco, 21.7% of businesses identify the practices of their informal-sector competitors as their main obstacle, compared with 15.7% for corruption, according to the World Bank.
In Morocco, certain requests for financial information can now receive a response within 60 minutes. A report by Transparency International and UNICRI details the mechanisms established to speed up investigations into suspicious money flows.
Morocco scores zero on lobbying practice in the OECD’s latest assessment of public integrity. The Kingdom meets only 20% of the regulatory criteria examined, far below the averages observed in the organization’s member countries.
The personal driver of the Secretary of State for Maritime Fisheries was reportedly removed from his duties following a complaint accusing him of receiving 200,000 dirhams to facilitate obtaining an authorization concerning a fishing boat.
The Ministry of Health has temporarily suspended a gastroenterologist from the Moulay Ali Cherif Regional Hospital in Errachidia. This decision follows a complaint for alleged corruption amounting to 3,000 dirhams concerning a surgical procedure.
The courts have sentenced Said Naciri, former president of Wydad Casablanca, and Abdenbi Bioui, former regional president, to 10 and 12 years in prison respectively. A historic decision in a vast international drug trafficking case.
At the head of the Castellane network in Marseille, Mohamed Djeha built a financial empire. To launder his millions, the drug lord attempted to organize a vast gold trafficking operation from Morocco using a diplomatic pouch.
French justice has dismantled a gigantic criminal organization run from Morocco. This sprawling network laundered over one billion euros in dirty money and corrupted police officers to obtain confidential information.
Former minister Mohammed Moubdii was sentenced Thursday to 13 years in prison for embezzlement of public funds. The Casablanca Court of Appeal also imposed a heavy fine in favor of the municipality of Fkih Bensalah.