Court of Auditors Scrutinizes Ministry Social Foundations, Excludes Parliamentary Works

The ministries each have a foundation for social works whose objective is to launch and monitor social projects whose beneficiaries are the staff, active or retired. These foundations deal with the health sector, housing, vacation camps, or even food at discounted prices.

And there may be embezzlement. For example, in 2016, the management of the Foundation for Social Works under the Ministry of Public Works had been criticized by this same Court of Auditors, whose magistrates had revealed the existence of real estate services intended to benefit the target personnel but which ultimately served purely commercial interests.

Here we are talking about inspections of the foundations of all the ministries, except... Le360 writes: "Only the two foundations responsible for the social works of parliamentarians (councilors and deputies), which manage an annual budget of 5 million dirhams, have been spared".

A reason is cited later, by the same source, based on an article in Al Akhbar: "These twenty foundations have been targeted based on their annual budget allocation. The inspection indeed concerns all the foundations of the social works whose annual allocation exceeds 6 million dirhams". Strange choice of figure...

Because indeed 5 million dirhams is less than 6 million dirhams. The number of employees and beneficiaries does not seem to be a parameter taken into account.