Bank Director Arrested in Morocco for Alleged Checkbook Fraud Scheme

The arrest of the bank branch director took place last Thursday. He is accused of having falsified the power of attorney of a client - a young doctoral student - to withdraw checkbooks that he would have handed over to her ex-husband, suspected of being involved in a network of checkbook trafficking, reports Assabah. A bank employee would also be involved in this case. The investigating judge decided to prosecute her in a state of freedom with the withdrawal of her passport and the prohibition to leave the national territory. Accused of the theft of the bank’s checkbook request, the capital of which is held by the State, the defendant and the director of the agency are being prosecuted for breach of trust and forgery of banking documents.

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Two years ago, a young doctoral student had been arrested for issuing checks without provision and forgery of documents and had been sentenced to two years in prison by the court of first instance. A sentence reduced to eight months in prison by the criminal court. On her release from prison, her lawyer filed a complaint with the public prosecutor asking him to open an investigation into the bank branch manager, the employee and other people who claim to have connections with the security and judicial apparatus, but also to carry out a handwriting expertise on the receipt of two checkbooks.

The expertise carried out by the forensic institute of the Royal Gendarmerie proved the lawyer right. It showed that the signature on the two checkbooks did not belong to his client.