The former president of the municipality of Moulay Yacoub , Mohamed Laidi, a member of the Istiqlal party, appeared before the Attorney General of the King near the Court of Appeal of Fez, accompanied by six engineers. They are accused of embezzlement of public funds.
Two officials from the gendarmerie of Nouaceur and Deroua, as well as the wife of a drug trafficker, have been incarcerated in the Oukacha prison for corruption and blackmail.
The regional brigade of the judicial police in Fez arrested on Thursday eleven individuals, including a director and civil servants of a public hospital as well as three managers of private healthcare facilities in Taza.
The Rabat Court of Appeal has opened an investigation into the disappearance of more than 4 million dirhams in Kenitra . This sum evaporated during the term of the former president of the municipal council and former minister Aziz Rabbah, following a real estate transaction involving the exchange of a municipal land for another belonging to a real estate developer.
The National Brigade of the Judicial Police of Casablanca is currently investigating a suspected case of document forgery related to a real estate project in the city.
Former parliamentary assistant and husband of Greek MEP Eva Kaili, Francesco Giorgi was arrested on December 9, 2022 and detained in Brussels for two and a half months, as part of the so-called Qatargate affair. He claims to be threatened by Morocco.
Elements of a special brigade from the central services of the Royal Gendarmerie arrested two gendarmes from the Souk El Arbaa brigade, in the province of Kenitra, and a drug baron as part of an investigation into suspected corruption.
In Rabat, several people including a former official at the Salé prefecture were tried for falsifying official documents and corruption. They received prison sentences ranging from six months suspended to six years.
The deputy prosecutor general of the king in Tangier, previously arrested in flagrante delicto of corruption, was sentenced by the Court of Appeal of Rabat to 6 months in prison and a fine of 5,000 dirhams.
Suspected of acts of corruption and falsification of official documents, a magistrate belonging to a criminal network was arrested and placed in pre-trial detention, in a cell of the civil prison of Bourkaiz, in Fez. The detailed interrogation of all members of this network will begin on November 26.
An elected member of the Jnane El Ouard district council in Fez was arrested on Tuesday, caught in the act of corruption, while receiving a sum of 15,000 dirhams.
The provincial council of Moulay Yacoub, a locality known for its thermal spa, located near Fez, is shaken by a financial scandal. Its president Jawad Al-Dawahi is accused of "misappropriation of public funds" and "embezzlement".