Former Moroccan Official Denies Corruption Allegations, Plans Legal Action

The man defended himself on Monday, categorically rejecting the accusations against him. "Slander," according to the current member of the PJD general secretariat, who expressed his intention to submit this matter to the courts. "After documenting these false accusations by a court commissioner, with an inventory of the names of those who shared it, I completely deny the slander mentioned in the video and the shared post," said the former government spokesperson.

According to him, "the information that there has been identity theft, favoritism and influence peddling is completely false." He added that the fact that Lahcen Bouarfa accused him of dishonesty and embezzlement, allegedly that he did not have "a single dirham before acquiring a 600 million villa" 24 months after joining the government, is also false. "Although I do not consider poverty a defect, on January 25, 2012, I published a special declaration of my real estate assets obtained through inheritance, which at the time included taxes on 8 real estate properties registered in my name with the Land Registry of Kenitra, as well as an agricultural plot in Doukkala, the access to which is still public on the Internet until today," says Hespress.

He also said he had declared to the Court of Auditors the acquisition of a villa with a total area of 247 square meters, paid for by a "Mourabaha" loan and whose "price is not the one presumed in the video," he stressed.

Mustapha Khalfi also denies "receiving a salary of 70,000 DH from the budget of the Head of Government, acquiring a car for 1 million DH and squandering public money through a black box of the Head of Government." Given the seriousness of these accusations and all that they imply, Mustapha Khalfi has decided to "resort to the courts in order to seek compensation and forced damages."