Morocco’s Court of Auditors reports that more than 60% of defaulting public officials have failed to regularize their asset declarations. The institution recommends using artificial intelligence to strengthen the fight against illicit enrichment.
A Moroccan national was sentenced by the Audiencia of Ceuta after attempting to bribe a civil guard at the Tarajal border crossing. The man hoped to bring in a shipment of unauthorized food products in exchange for a simple 50-euro bill.
The Interior Ministry has launched extensive inspections in the Casablanca and Marrakech regions and Rabat. Numerous mayors are suspected of corruption, real estate speculation, and illegally issuing building permits for their own benefit.
The Moroccan police opened a judicial investigation on Thursday targeting 24 people, including police officers and customs officials, suspected of corruption and smuggling at the port of Tanger Med to facilitate the illegal passage of goods.
A Zagora operator has seized the justice system and the Ministry of the Interior against a caïd and his deputy. He accuses them of financial blackmail and illegal destruction of his watermelon cultivation on January 16th last.
The imagination of the corrupt is limitless. Tracked by the security services and frightened by wiretaps, municipal presidents have found a new "hideout" to negotiate their illegal commissions: the steam of the Turkish baths. The Ministry of the Interior has opened an investigation into these astonishing practices.
The elements of the Royal Gendarmerie proceeded, on Tuesday evening, to the arrest of the president of a municipality in the province of Chichaoua. The elected official was apprehended in flagrant corruption , while he was receiving a sum of money in exchange for an administrative service.
The end of the line for a police sergeant from Villeneuve-la-Garenne. The courts have validated the dismissal of this police officer, involved in a vast corruption scandal related to impound lots. He is accused of having sold his influence in exchange for lavish gifts, including trips to Morocco .
The political horizon is darkening for many local elected officials. The Ministry of the Interior has initiated a process aimed at banning from elections officials involved in the proliferation of anarchic industrial zones. This administrative offensive, coupled with aerial surveillance of the countryside, promises to redraw the electoral map well before the 2026 deadlines.
The General Inspectorate of Finance (IGF) has launched an in-depth investigation into the management of the vehicle fleet of three public institutions. The auditors are closely examining long-term rental contracts worth a total of more than 20 million dirhams, amid suspicions of conflicts of interest and favoritism.
In Morocco, audit reports conducted by magistrates from the Regional Accounting Courts of the Casablanca-Settat, Rabat-Salé-Kénitra and Béni Mellal-Khénifra regions, as part of inspection missions dedicated to the control of subsidies and public aid granted to associations by municipalities, reveal numerous irregularities.
The government of Aziz Akhannouch has been forced to provide concrete responses to the demands (health, education and the fight against corruption) of the Moroccan youth collective "GenZ 212".