Casablanca Police Commissioner Arrested for Alleged Bribery and Extortion

Following a complaint filed on January 27 by one Mahjoub A. with the Presidency of the Public Prosecutor’s Office via the green line, the commissioner was pinned down for having demanded the sum of 5,000 dirhams, as a bribe, reports barlamane.

According to the same source, this sum was to be used to bribe the 1st deputy prosecutor of the king near the court of first instance of Casablanca.

The ambush, set up on January 27, made it possible to arrest the judicial commissioner, in flagrante delicto in his vehicle, in the company of the complainant, indicates the same media. The search carried out at the level of the glove compartment made it possible to find the amount demanded.

Arrested, the accused completely denied all the charges against him, arguing that he had accidentally met the complainant in a cafe. The latter would have decided to join him in his vehicle to deposit the sum of money in the glove compartment without his knowledge and implicate him in this case of corruption.