
Moroccan Tourism Sector Receives Pandemic Aid, but Financial Concerns Persist
Moroccan tourism professionals will soon be in possession of the subsidies granted to them for the month of September. Despite this subsidy, they still fear bankruptcy.

Moroccan tourism professionals will soon be in possession of the subsidies granted to them for the month of September. Despite this subsidy, they still fear bankruptcy.

The member of the Party of Authenticity and Modernity , Abdelwahed El Messaoudi, sounded the alarm on an anti-banking practice in Morocco. Moroccans no longer trust their banks and prefer to keep their savings at home.

The long-term foreign and local currency issuer default ratings of three Moroccan banks have been downgraded by Fitch Ratings. The ratings drop to "BB" with a more or less stable outlook.

The Moroccan Banque Centrale Populaire (BCP) is looking for a strategic partner in Asia. As part of its new five-year development program, it is preparing to launch negotiations with banks on the continent for the opening of a share of its capital.

Individuals took advantage of the sandstorm that hit a large part of Morocco last Tuesday to commit a robbery in a bank branch in Bir Jdid . The stolen loot was estimated at more than 200,000 dirhams.

2.5 million dirhams. This is the amount that a businessman discovered in his company’s account. The sum was transferred by mistake by the Tax Office of Sidi bennour .

The Governor of Bank Al-Maghrib (BAM), has achieved a new feat. Moroccan Abdellatif Jouahri has been ranked in the top 10 best central bankers for the fourth consecutive time.

The director of a bank and 3 employees were sentenced to 26 years in prison, accompanied by a fine of 100,000 dirhams. They are accused of embezzling 10 million dirhams.

Last Saturday, a company in Tangier filed a complaint against its employee for breach of trust. He had withdrawn a large sum of money before disappearing.

The Federal Judicial Police of Brussels is on the trail of the "Chaabi Bank" bank, a subsidiary of the Moroccan banking group "Banque Populaire". This is part of a judicial investigation initiated by the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office into illicit activities related to money laundering, the Belgian press reveals.

Long promised by the government, the tax amnesty for blank checks has become a reality thanks to the entry into force of the decree-law that reduces the amounts of penalties to lift the ban on checkbooks.

4 million dirhams have disappeared from a bank account opened by a businessman in a bank branch in Essaouira . Behind this case, several individuals, some of whom are on the run.