Two Spanish women of Moroccan origin claim to have been victims of blackmail and fraud by two Moroccan gendarmes, as they were returning to Melilla after a vacation in Ifrane.
On the run for several years, a septuagenarian accused of fraud , as part of a real estate project in Tiznit, was arrested by the Agadir police brigade services. He is said to have swindled more than 500 people.
Accused of having defrauded his clients for a total amount of 546,000 euros, the Moroccan Soufyène Mazouz, former real estate agent in Persan, and also the former boss of the Nestenn agency in Persan, was convicted of breach of trust and money laundering.
The internal control services of the banks concerned are conducting investigations into fraud operations related to the "rahn" (pledge) system in social housing apartments.
The Court of Appeal of Fez has confirmed the conviction of three people to a one-year prison sentence, including a parking attendant.
The members of a network specialized in the spoliation of public and private lands were sentenced on Wednesday by the Court of First Instance in Fez to more than 94 years in prison, accompanied by fines and the payment of 800,000 dirhams to the Ministry of the Interior as damages.
Sentenced in the first instance to six months’ suspended imprisonment, a 6,000 euro fine and two years of ineligibility for fraud, Yazid Ichemrahen, 2014 world champion in frozen desserts, has waived his appeal trial.
Involved in a real estate fraud case, the brother of a former president of the Raja club in Casablanca, as well as other people, were given heavy prison sentences.
The Regional Directorate of the Judicial Police of Fez opened an investigation on Tuesday, December 3, against a police officer suspected of fraud, scam and extortion.
The Court of Appeal in Rabat sentenced on Friday to three years in prison a man accused of having usurped the identity of an official from the Ministry of the Royal Household, Protocol and Chancellery, in order to defraud personalities.
Touria, a divorced woman in her forties and mother of two boys, was the victim of a financial scam by a fake online banker who managed to extort 20,000 euros from her, he said, "to support the Palestinians against Israel".
The court of first instance in Tinghir sentenced a man in his forties accused of practicing roqya on women whom he photographed in compromising positions in order to defraud them.