Five Arrested in Rabat for Alleged Real Estate Fraud Scheme

These arrests follow an investigation conducted under the supervision of the competent public prosecutor’s office, indicates a press release from the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN), specifying that the individuals, a woman with multiple criminal records and four accomplices, including two real estate agents, were targeted by a complaint from a woman on social networks.

According to the first elements of the investigation, the suspects, a criminal network of fraud and fraud, dispossessed the victim of her property, by offering her the sale of an agricultural estate against an advance of several hundred thousand dirhams, before encumbering the property with mortgages and protective credits and keeping the amount of the deposit on the pretext that it was used to clear the debts of the property.

These individuals are also suspected of being involved in cases of check forgery and fictitious debt acknowledgments, continues the DGSN, noting that the investigations carried out so far have made it possible to identify five victims who have been relieved of sums ranging from 100,000 to 360,000 DH.

The investigation continues under the supervision of the competent public prosecutor’s office in order to elucidate this case, to identify all the criminal acts attributed to the accused and to arrest all the persons who have contributed or participated in these criminal acts, concludes the press release.