"Desert Escobar" case: serious charges against Said Naciri and Abdenbi Bioui

The charges brought against Said Naciri, president of Wydad de Casablanca, PAM parliamentarian, and also president of the Prefectural Council of Casablanca, following the judicial investigation are now known. They are:
• Forgery in public writing by the fabrication of agreements and use of forgeries,
• Participation in an agreement for the possession, marketing, transport and export of narcotics,
• Fraud and attempted fraud,
• Influence peddling by a person invested with an elective mandate,
• Determining others to make false statements and attestations through the use of threats and pressures,
• Receiving of things obtained through an offense,
• Falsification of checks,
• Attempted export of narcotics without declaration or authorization,
• Export of narcotics without declaration or authorization,
• Importation of foreign currency without authorization,
• Direct payment in foreign currency of goods and services within the national territory,
• Participation in the direct payment, in foreign currency, of goods or services within the national territory.

He is not accused of "violation of the rules relating to the circulation of goods in the customs area".

As for Abdenbi Bioui, member of the PAM political bureau, construction magnate, he is accused of:
• Forgery in public writing by the fabrication of agreements and use of forgeries,
• Extortion by coercion of two writings operating a discharge and a disposition,
• Complicity in the falsification of a public register,
• Complicity in an arbitrary act infringing on individual freedom for the satisfaction of personal passions,
• Corruption, facilitation of the clandestine entry and exit of nationals from Moroccan territory, habitually and within the framework of an association and agreement,
• Participation in an agreement for the possession, transport, export and marketing of narcotics.
• Receiving of things obtained through an offense,
• Participation in false testimony in criminal matters by making promises,
• Use of forgeries in public writing (two documents used),
• Use of a vehicle without registration,
• Attempted export of narcotics without declaration or authorization and complicity,
• Participation in direct payments in foreign currency of goods and services within the national territory,
• Complicity in payments without authorization from the Foreign Exchange Office by foreigners for the purchase of real estate in Morocco and this, by means other than the sale of foreign currencies to Bank Al Maghrib (BAM).

For the time being, the date of the first hearing is not yet known. The file has been transmitted to the Attorney General of the King near the Court of Appeal of Casablanca, according to Hespress. A preliminary step to the possible opening of the judicial phase before the Criminal Chamber.