Fraud

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• Moroccan Call Center Fined €50,000 for Solar Panel Scam Targeting French Residents
  30 October 2024, by Said

  A call center based in Casablanca was sentenced to a heavy fine for having conducted an illegal telemarketing campaign with many residents in the Lyon region.
  Posing as an "RGE study office" mandated by the government, the Ben-Mensah Call operators promised individuals assistance with the installation of solar panels after examining their bills.
  Their real goal? Collect personal information on the victims of this scam. "They call from a 06 number that seems real," testifies Martin, a (…)

• Gulf Job Scammer Arrested: Woman Charged with Defrauding Hopeful Migrants
  29 November 2019, by Kamal

  The one called Lhajja was brought before the Attorney General last Sunday for her alleged involvement in several fraud and scam cases. This woman is a dream breaker demanding up to 15,000 dirhams in exchange for a promise of a job contract in certain Gulf countries.
  The accused had no difficulty convincing her victims to advance the sum of 3,000 dirhams as a deposit. They also had to give her their passport as well as a copy of their ID card and criminal record.
  For the victims, the (…)

• French Lawmaker Mustapha Laabid Loses Appeal in Embezzlement Case
  27 September 2020, by Ginette

  The deputy of Moroccan origin had been splashed by an embezzlement case, for which he had been convicted in 2019 by the Rennes Criminal Court. According to the court, the man had used the bank card of the integration association he was running for personal purposes. Mustapha Laabid acknowledges "globally some errors, perhaps even faults," reports Sud Ouest.
  But he points out that the investigators are not right about the amount indicated. As in the first instance, he assures during the (…)

• Jailed Plastic Surgeon Dr. Hassan Tazi May Be Released as Evidence Weakens
  25 September 2023, by Sylvanus

  The famous plastic surgeon, Dr. Hassan Tazi, owner of the Chifaa clinic, incarcerated for, among other things, human trafficking, abuse of weakness and fraud, could soon be released from prison. This is the door opened by the hearing of a witness but also the non-consideration of a certain number of reports, considered null and void.
  It emerges from the hearing by the Criminal Chamber of the head of the billing department of the clinic, also prosecuted in this case, but at liberty, that (…)

• Moroccan Man Loses Sight After Surgery by Fake Doctor in Rabat Hospital
  19 September 2022, by Prince

  A man has just lost his sight in a Rabat hospital after being operated on by a fake doctor. Three people have already been arrested in this case.
  A new scandal has just rocked a hospital in Rabat where a man lost his sight after being operated on by a fake doctor, reports the daily Al Akhbar. The man, around 40 years old, was having trouble getting an appointment for an urgent eye surgery. That’s when one of the hospital’s security guards offered to put him in touch with a surgeon doctor (…)

• Mecca Pilgrimage Visa Scam: Teacher Arrested in Morocco for Fraud
  3 September 2024, by Sylvanus

  In Meknes, cases of fraud related to Omra or Hajj pilgrimage visas are multiplying. Suspected of being involved in visa scams for pilgrimage to Mecca, a teacher from the École Normale Supérieure was arrested and then placed in custody.
  The Meknes police arrested a teacher from the École Normale Supérieure of Meknes suspected of being involved in visa scams for pilgrimage to Mecca. This arrest, which took place on Tuesday, August 27, is the result of an investigation conducted by the (…)

• Major Real Estate Fraud Trial Begins in Morocco, Involving Notaries and Officials
  3 January 2023, by Sylvanus

  The examination of the case of a real estate fraud scandal involving 21 defendants, including notaries, adouls, former commune presidents, intermediaries and a real estate developer, continues before the Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal of Tétouan.
  Prosecuted for fraud, breach of trust, violation of investment laws, forgery and use of forgeries in a case involving several million dirhams, and which has affected hundreds of victims, 21 defendants, including notaries, adouls, former (…)

• Moroccan Police Arrest Three in Gulf-Targeted Online Sextortion Scheme
  24 August 2023, by Prince

  Elements of the judicial police of Oued Zem in the province of Khouribga have just arrested three individuals for "fraud, scam and sexual blackmail" via social networks.
  The three accused were scamming and blackmailing their victims, mostly from Gulf countries, on social networks. Their modus operandi consists of "filming the victims in indecent and compromising positions via the computer webcam and video calls on instant messaging applications, before coming back to blackmail them," (…)

• Police Officer Arrested in Rabat for Alleged Recruitment Fraud Scheme
  3 January 2019, by Said

  A police sergeant-chief suspected of being involved in a fraud case was arrested on Wednesday by the prefectural judicial police service of Rabat.
  "The security services received a complaint attributing to the suspect police officer her involvement in fraud operations, by claiming to be a recruitment intermediary within the police ranks, in exchange for sums of money," says a statement from the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN).
  She is also accused of having provided false (…)

• Moroccan Suspect Arrested in Spain for $1.6 Million Gibraltar Tobacco Heist
  13 August 2020, by Kamal

  The man, who had committed his act in June 2017, was arrested in Spain following an international arrest warrant issued against him in 2018 by the Supreme Court of Gibraltar. He would have been released on bail.
  According to Spanish media, three other individuals were arrested as part of the same case, for having participated in the robbery of the tobacco depot and the theft of the 1.5 million euros.
  After several months of investigation, the individual was apprehended by the Guardia (…)