Congolese National Arrested in Morocco for Currency Counterfeiting and Document Forgery

The arrested Congolese national was born in 1969 in Kinshasa. After his arrest, he was placed in custody before being brought before the investigating judge. He will then be placed in pre-trial detention in the El Arjat prison, near Dar As-Sikkah (mint). The accused is now being prosecuted under arrest for, among other things, counterfeiting the national currency, its possession and promotion, as well as the forgery of administrative documents, reports the Arabic-language daily Al Akhbar. He did not act alone. The authorities are continuing the investigations to find his accomplices - including a Senegalese national - currently on the run.

The fifty-year-old is known to the Moroccan justice system. In the past, he had been brought before the public prosecutor’s office in Rabat for illegal residence on national territory. He had managed to register at the Faculty of Law in Rabat and obtain a student card. But during the search carried out at his home in Salé, the investigators came across two forged extracts of his residence permit.