Driss Jettou

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• Former Moroccan PM Benkirane Challenges Auditors to Examine His Assets Amid Pension Controversy
  12 February 2019, by Amine

  In a live video on Facebook, former government president Abdelilah Benkirane invites Driss Jettou, president of the Court of Auditors, to come and scrutinize his assets.
  While accusations are still flying about Benkirane, particularly regarding a second pension he is said to be receiving, the latter responds to his accusers in a live video on Facebook. He invites the president of the Court of Accounts, Driss Jettou, to verify his possessions and assets.
  Benkirane also takes the (…)

• Court of Auditors Scrutinizes Ministry Social Foundations, Excludes Parliamentary Works
  4 April 2019, by Amine

  The budgets and management of the Foundations of the social works of the ministries are in the sights of the Court of Auditors, which intends to reveal the potential embezzlement. But the social works of parliamentarians (councilors and deputies), no. No inspection in sight, for the moment.
  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 (…)

• King Mohammed VI’s Inner Circle: The Power Players Shaping Morocco’s Monarchy
  30 July 2019, by Kamal

  The magazine Jeune Afrique has devoted a special report to the influential men in the shadow of King Mohammed VI. An investigation into the network of the main personalities surrounding the King and who constitute the basic pillars in the functioning of the monarchy.
  Shadow of the Sovereign and trusted man, Fouad Ali Himma is a childhood friend who was appointed Secretary of State to the Ministry of the Interior upon the King’s accession. Promoted to Minister Delegate to the Minister of (…)

• Moroccan Auditors Warn of Health Risks from Widespread Pesticide Use
  11 January 2020, by Bladi.net

  During a session of the public finance control committee in the House of Representatives, devoted to the examination of the latest report of the Court of Auditors on the National Office of Sanitary Safety of Food Products (ONSSA), Driss Jettou, President of the Court of Auditors, pointed out the great danger that chemical inputs pose to the health of Moroccans.
  In Morocco, more and more, farmers are faced with the often unavoidable option of using many chemical products. These are, (…)

• Moroccan State TV Channels Face Scrutiny Over $100 Million Deficit Despite Massive Subsidies
  29 January 2020, by Kamal

  Despite the annual subsidies, estimated by the Court of Auditors at 1 billion dirhams, the two national television channels continue to show an annual deficit of 200 million dirhams.
  This figure was revealed on Tuesday, January 28, by the President of the Court of Auditors, Driss Jettou, during the presentation of the annual report to the Moroccan parliament.
  For the watchdog of public money, the programs presented by the two audiovisual poles in no way meet the aspirations of the (…)

• Moroccan Officials Face Scrutiny: 100 Lawmakers and Mayors Fail to Declare Assets
  1 February 2020, by Bladi.net

  A list of one hundred personalities, mainly parliamentarians and commune presidents who have not made their asset declaration, has just been submitted to the Head of Government.
  The First President of the Court of Auditors has just submitted to the head of government a blacklist of one hundred personalities, mainly composed of parliamentarians and commune presidents who have not made their asset declaration. Driss Jettou affirmed, before Parliament, to have submitted to the head of the (…)

• Moroccan Audit Court Reveals $2 Million Misuse of Public Funds by Political Parties
  7 February 2020, by Bladi.net

  The Court of Auditors denounced on Wednesday, February 5, 20 political parties whose leaders would have embezzled the sum of twenty million dirhams.
  The scandal of public funds embezzled by some political leaders is resurfacing. Twenty political parties, in fact, persist in not returning a total of twenty million dirhams, granted by the State to political parties, for the year 2017-2018. This is a denunciation made by the Court of Accounts, chaired by Driss Jettou, and relayed by Assabah (…)

• Morocco’s Audit Court Chief Slams Lawmakers for Ignoring Key Reports
  25 June 2020, by Bladi.net

  In an intervention before the members of the House of Representatives, the President of the Court of Auditors, Driss Jettou, protested against the fate reserved for his studies which do not find "buyers".
  Questioned about the fate of his reports, particularly the report on "the evaluation of the Slum-free City program, between 2008 and 2018", the President of the Court of Auditors became outraged. Driss Jettou passed the ball to the parliamentarians, who had long snubbed his studies. (…)

• Moroccan Officials Face Audit Scrutiny: Marrakech and Safi Region Leaders Summoned
  3 November 2020, by Kamal

  The noose is tightening more and more around elected officials and municipal employees, discredited during audits carried out by experts from the Court of Auditors. A summons has been addressed to the presidents and municipal employees of the Marrakech and Safi region.
  According to the site Kech24, the officials of the communes of Tamelalt, Atamna and Drouz have been summoned to appear before the Regional Council, while the hearing of the former and current presidents of the Commune of (…)