Brothers Arrested in Morocco for Multi-City Money Transfer Agency Theft Spree

It was the elements of the prefectural service of the judicial police of Meknes, in collaboration with their counterparts in Sidi Slimane, who managed to arrest the two brothers, the subject of a national search warrant for fraud and breach of trust, indicates the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) in a press release.

Based on the initial elements of the investigation, the police say that the two people arrested (brothers) are suspected of being the gang that carried out a series of thefts in nine money transfer and exchange agencies in El Hajeb, Meknes, Tiflet, Mechrâa Bel Ksiri, Oulmès and Jorf El Melha, through a front company to defraud the employees of the targeted agencies.

Two vehicles, a sum of money and a tear gas bomb are among the items discovered after the searches carried out as part of the investigations which are continuing in order to uncover the income derived from this criminal activity, informs the same source.

The two accused were placed in custody at the disposal of the judicial investigation conducted under the supervision of the competent public prosecutor’s office to determine all the crimes in which the two suspects are involved.