
Casablanca Real Estate Scandal: Luxury Villas Built on Illegal Quarry Site
Scandals have not finished splashing the real estate sector in Morocco. The latest, a real estate project of about thirty villas in the Casablanca region, built on a quarry.

Scandals have not finished splashing the real estate sector in Morocco. The latest, a real estate project of about thirty villas in the Casablanca region, built on a quarry.

As part of the fight against corruption, Morocco intends to make a code of ethics available to government officials.

The trial of Abderrahim El Kamil, president of the Ouahate Sidi Brahim commune, and PAM councilor in the second Chamber of Parliament, has been postponed to March 4. This was decided by the Criminal Chamber at the Marrakech Court of Appeal in charge of financial crimes.

Two municipal officials were arrested on Saturday in flagrante delicto of corruption. It is the president of the rural commune of Ouled Aissa, in the province of Taroudant, elected and vice-president of the RNI.

An authority agent with the rank of "Moqaddem" was arrested on Thursday in flagrante delicto of corruption in Marrakech .

The former director of the Urban Agency of Marrakech was sentenced on Wednesday evening by the Marrakech Court of Appeal to 10 years in prison and a fine of 1 million DH. Khalid Ouaya was prosecuted for corruption.

An advisor to the former Minister of Transport, Aziz Rebbah , and the director of the public property conservation service, are being prosecuted by the Court of Appeal of Rabat for crimes of corruption, forgery of administrative documents and counterfeiting and use of the state seal.

The president of the commune of Tanant, and deputy of the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), was sentenced by the Casablanca Court of Appeal to four years in prison for financial embezzlement. The accused was involved in illegal transactions, with three entrepreneurs who each received 18 months in prison.

The criminal chamber of the Marrakech Court of Appeal in charge of financial crimes is about to open the trial of around ten officials from the province of Essaouira accused, among other things, of embezzlement and misappropriation of public funds.

The elements of the judicial police of Casablanca proceeded, on Monday, January 27, to the arrest of an official of the Correctional Chamber of Ain Sebaâ, caught in the act of corruption. According to sources close to the court, he would be the head of the complaint reception service at the Ain Sebaâ court.

The Ministry of Health is shaken by a major corruption case involving defective equipment, acquired at exorbitant prices. The fraud file was revealed following a denunciation by the Moroccan network for the defense of the right to health and the right to life.

In Marrakech, a new case involving the president of a rural commune under the wilaya of the city is making headlines. Arrested on January 21 in flagrante delicto of corruption, the latter will be brought before the court under arrest, and prosecuted for corruption.