Hotel Owner Found Dead in Morocco: Business Partner Arrested in Suspected Murder

A financial dispute that ends badly. A businesswoman, from the wealthy circles of Oujda, is suspected of having murdered a hotel owner, her friend and business partner. After the discovery of the victim’s lifeless body, the investigators conducted investigations to elucidate the murder. The preliminary investigation reveals that the victim’s body bore traces of several violent blows and torture, which would probably have caused her death, reports Assabah.

The victim’s maid told the investigators that her boss had received a phone call and left her home the night she disappeared, around midnight. The analysis of the data recorded on her phone, in particular the itinerary she had taken since the last call she had received, as well as the list of her other calls, led the investigators on a trail. The alleged murderess was arrested and then placed in pre-trial detention.

The victim and the suspect were associates and friends. The first ran a hotel unit located in Saïdia. A property that belonged to the two associates. According to the investigators, a financial dispute opposed the two women. The victim had withdrawn 600,000 DH from her bank account, just before her murder, while the alleged murderess was in a very difficult financial situation.