Casablanca Real Estate Scam Exposed: English Teacher Arrested in Forgery Ring

It all started with a complaint filed by members of a family with the Médiouna gendarmerie. Back in Casablanca, they discovered that their house was inhabited by a woman they accuse of having dispossessed their residence, reports Assabah. This woman claimed to have bought it. Elements of the Médiouna gendarmerie then conducted an investigation. It emerges that "it was a customary sales contract dating from 2008, i.e. before the promulgation of a law that cancels the use of customary contracts in real estate transactions." During her interrogation, "the squatter" told the investigators that the contract was delivered to her by an individual she had met at a "public writer" for a large sum of money. This trail allows the gendarmes to identify and locate the mastermind of a document forgery network. It is an English teacher working in a famous private school in Casablanca.

This teacher was arrested and then brought before the Attorney General of the King near the Court of Appeal of Casablanca for "constitution of a gang specialized in the forgery of documents and their use". He is accused of having drafted contracts, including those concerning the sale of real estate. Currently, the gendarmes are working to find his accomplices: an active civil servant and two others who have retired. They disappeared into thin air after learning of the arrest of the main accused. The civil servant’s task was to backdate the contracts and stamp them with a serial number for 7,000 dirhams per document. The other two accused were responsible for legalizing signatures using stamps they kept after their retirement and adding the names of fictitious officials to these fake contracts before selling them.