Governors recently appointed have dismantled networks of anarchic and illegal construction involving authority auxiliaries. They would have amassed large fortunes by escaping the control of the territorial administration, with the blessing of the "Internal Affairs Services".
For a few days now, Nejmeddine Abidi, the pacha of the city of Tiznit , has been leading a campaign to free the public space, which has allowed him to uncover the existence of a network of extortion, made up of notables, agents and auxiliaries of authority.
Corruption is reaching alarming proportions in Morocco. The direct line made available to the population to report cases they may be aware of is overflowing.
The journalist at the daily Akhbar Al Yaoum, Hajar Raissouni, was taken into custody by the judicial police elements on Saturday, August 31, for a dark affair of corruption, clandestine abortion and extramarital sex.
The Correctional Chamber near the Court of First Instance in El Jadida sentenced a nurse working at the Regional Hospital in the city to two months of actual imprisonment accompanied by a fine of 2,000 dirhams, for corruption.
A major reshuffle awaits the Moroccan government as soon as King Mohammed VI returns from his stay in Gabon. More than a political earthquake, it is a real clean-up operation in the face of numerous cases of corruption and embezzlement of public funds.
Following numerous complaints from entrepreneurs on the grounds of accusations of corruption, the Ministry of the Interior is investigating public contracts awarded to "friendly" companies in wilayas and provinces.
An activist of the Jamaat Al Adl wal Ihsane was arrested on Thursday, August 8, 2019. He is accused of a corruption case.
The scourge of corruption has settled, especially, at the level of parliamentarians and ministers. This information, published in the report of the "Afrobarometer" Institute, sufficiently shows the Government’s inability to curb the phenomenon in Morocco.
The Party of Justice and Development (PJD) is once again splashed by a corruption case involving some of its executives. Two of them have just been sentenced to eight years in prison.
The Director of the Urban Agency, Khalid Ouaya, was arrested in the act of corruption, as he was about to receive a bribe of 500,000 dirhams from a real estate developer in the city. The operation was carried out by the National Brigade of the Judicial Police (BNPJ).
A year after its installation by the Public Prosecutor’s Office, the direct line reserved for reporting acts of corruption in Morocco seems to be a failure. Its record is mixed, after a year of operation. The line has been extensively used for other complaints and for trivialities.