Morocco has made the fight against corruption a national priority. In this sense, the kingdom has equipped itself with a sophisticated legal arsenal and is also striving to implement several prevention and repression measures, including the adoption of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy (2015-2025).
The Ministry of the Interior has initiated legal proceedings against about thirty mayors, along with 15 deputy mayors and 34 municipal councillors, for misappropriating public funds and falsifying administrative documents.
A caïd working in the prefecture of Sidi Bernoussi was detained in the Oukacha prison, after a woman denounced him through the anti-corruption hotline. He had demanded a bribe of 500 dirhams from her to speed up the procedure for issuing her passport.
The Moroccan network for the defense of public funds has seized Mohamed Abdennabaoui, President of the General Prosecutor’s Office, for cases of fictitious markets that have taken place in the commune of Lougfaf, province of Khouribga.
The judicial police of Casablanca opened, on Monday, December 30, a judicial investigation against a caïd in office in the passport service at the prefecture of Sidi Bernoussi. He would be involved in a corruption case.
Members of a passport trafficking network for the benefit of Israeli citizens without Moroccan origin were sentenced to prison terms ranging from six months to six years. This is the verdict of the Criminal Chamber of First Instance near the Court of Appeal of Casablanca .
A senior police officer, head of a police district in Sidi Moumen, was indicted on Wednesday, December 18, 2019. He is accused of his alleged involvement in a corruption case.
The Marrakech police services have indicted a French national of Algerian origin. He is accused of having driven under the influence of alcohol and of having tried to bribe police officers.
An international drug trafficker offered the investigating judge at the court of first instance in Kénitra to choose an amount between 1 and 10 million dirhams, in exchange for his release.
In total, 74% of Moroccans say that the government’s efforts to fight corruption are insufficient. This is revealed by the latest Transparency International report on corruption in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
Involved in a drug trafficking case of three and a half tons of cannabis resin (chira) seized on the beach of Kénitra , a drug trafficker failed in his attempt to bribe the investigating judge at the Kénitra Court of Appeal. Offended, the magistrate ordered his detention.
The head of the economic action division at the Wilaya of Marrakech-Safi was caught in the act of corruption.