Banker in Tangier Accused of $1.5 Million Fraud Against Deceased Client’s Estate

Their father and the banker were friends. The former had requested a loan from the latter to finance commercial activities. A few days later, he dies of Covid-19. When the lender tried to cash the checks that his debtor had given him, he was notified that they were bounced checks. He then decided to bring the case before the Commercial Court of Tangier. The latter issued a judgment requiring the pharmacist’s family to repay the amount of the checks, reports the Arabic daily Assabah.

The heirs of the deceased contest the decision and file an appeal for fraud of signature on bank checks before the same jurisdiction which rejects it. For the lawyer of the banker, the pharmacist’s family is acting in bad faith by not paying the debts. He assures that the expertise carried out by the Royal Gendarmerie’s technical and scientific research and analysis laboratory had confirmed that the signatures affixed to the checks corresponded to those on the national identity card, driver’s license and marriage contract of the pharmacist. The same goes for the signatures on the incriminated checks. They are identical to the specimen signature deposited at the bank.