Former Moroccan Mayor’s Assets Seized in Corruption Case

The court also decided to seize the movable and immovable property of four other defendants prosecuted in the same case, and to sentence them to a suspended prison sentence of one year. The former president of the commune of Midlet and his co-defendants are being prosecuted before the chamber in charge of financial crimes of the Court of Appeal of Fez for abuse of power, corruption, embezzlement of public funds, forgery of documents, etc.

The former president of the commune of Midlet is not the first official whose property and bank accounts have been seized by the Fez court. Before him, the court had taken the same measure against the president of the commune of Saïdia. Other commune presidents are also involved in cases pending judgment by the chamber in charge of financial crimes of the Court of Appeal of Fez.