Casablanca Fuel Scandal: Two Carriers Sentenced for Adulterating Gasoline

10 months in prison for one, 4 months in prison for the other. This is the verdict handed down by the Casablanca Court of Appeal in the case of the distribution of poor quality fuel. The convicted persons are carriers who are accused of having mixed the fuel they were transporting with other products, in order to increase the volume, specifies the same source, reports Le360.

Following a denunciation by several motorists who complained about engine failures in their vehicles and demanded compensation by organizing a sit-in near one of the service stations concerned in October 2022, the deputy of the Party of Progress and Socialism (PPS) Nadia Thami had addressed a written question to the Minister of Energy Transition and Sustainable Development, Leila Benali, on the quality of diesel fuel distributed in Morocco and the control procedures adopted by the supervisory authority to ensure the quality of fuels marketed on the national market.

"Following analyses carried out on samples of diesel and gasoline, it was proven that the fuel sold by these two stations was of poor quality," Leila Benali had stated in her response. She assured that the poor quality of the fuel comes from local distribution and not from imports. Two service stations in Casablanca linked to a French company were singled out. After the minister transmitted the file to the Casablanca prosecutor’s office, the investigators conducted investigations that led to the arrest of two carriers.