The 2026 finance bill marks a turning point in the Moroccan government’s strategy to reduce the circulation of cash outside the banking system. The government is introducing coercive tax measures, including a specific surcharge on untraceable real estate transactions , in order to force the bankarization of the economy and combat the informal sector.
Moroccans residing abroad are suspected of having orchestrated a money laundering network between Europe and Morocco. The case highlights accounts opened in the name of modest employees used as "fronts".
The Foreign Exchange Office has presented its annual report for 2024, a document that shows a profound transformation of the institution. It is moving towards a model that combines the preservation of financial balances with the promotion of economic openness and good governance.
The number of contentious cases reached 129 in 2024, compared to 137 in 2023, representing a decrease of 5.8%, according to the management report of the Foreign Exchange Office for the year 2024.
The National Financial Intelligence Authority (ANRF) is investigating local elected officials suspected of money laundering and embezzlement of public funds in the regions of Casablanca-Settat, Fès-Meknès, and Béni Mellal-Khénifra.
Following alert statements from a major bank in Casablanca , involving a company led by a businesswoman and a group of partner companies, the control services of the National Financial Intelligence Authority have intensified their investigations into a vast case of money laundering , carried out through fictitious commercial transactions.
The unusual career of an MP from Fès, formerly a car attendant at a hotel, who quickly became one of the city’s wealthiest and most influential men, is fueling debate.
The National Financial Intelligence Authority (ANRF) is investigating new real estate developers in Casablanca and Tanger, suspected of money laundering from cocaine trafficking.
Involved in suspicious transactions carried out in approved commercial outlets, mainly in Casablanca, Rabat and Tangier, businessmen and certain current and former elected officials, as well as members of their families and close associates, are in the sights of the Foreign Exchange Office controllers.
Following the receipt of information concerning the fraudulent use of "student" identities in money laundering operations through real estate investments in a legal form, the National Financial Intelligence Authority (ANRF) is investigating the compliance of unusual financial transfers between Moroccan students abroad, particularly in France and Canada, and managers of real estate associations located mainly in the Rabat-Casablanca axis, and the origin of these operations.
Inspectors from the National Financial Intelligence Authority (ANRF) are investigating small and medium-sized companies based between Casablanca and Tangier, suspected of fictitious declarations and money laundering.
Convicted to eight and five years in prison in 2019 in Versailles (Yvelines) for a cannabis trafficking operation, Brahim B. and his brother Lhassan appear to have resumed their activities upon their release from prison. The two brothers, along with eight other individuals, will be tried in September for a new drug trafficking case between Hauts-de-Seine and Essonne.