Bank Employee Flees After $400,000 Embezzlement Scheme in Essaouira

According to the statements of the head cashier, a bank employee and her accomplice would be the main instigators of the embezzlement. The individual, prosecuted in another case of fraud, would have supervised all the operations in exchange for commissions.

Initially, reports the daily Assabah, the client, a businessman in Essaouira, had placed 4 million dirhams in a term account, opened in 2015. 4 years later, the victim realizes that he has been deprived of all his capital.

For the bank manager, the account has never been frozen. In total, 13 withdrawal operations were carried out on the account since its opening. Amounts, continues the newspaper, ranging from 10,000 to 1 million dirhams.

Entrusted to the financial and economic police brigade, the investigation confirmed the involvement of the bank employee and her lover as well as the head cashier. In the meantime, the family of the accused has proposed an amicable settlement, which would have been rejected by the victim, concludes the daily.