Investigation Launched into Alleged Misappropriation at Moroccan Hospital

According to the daily Al Akhbar, the public prosecutor’s office at the court of first instance has just ordered an investigation into the operation of the hospital and the alleged involvement of an official in the misappropriation of nearly 4.6 million dirhams.

The union affiliated with the Moroccan Union of Workers had supported its request, filed with the Public Prosecutor’s Office, with a video denouncing the dubious contracts of an administrative official of the hospital. The union, which had reported serious malfunctions, accuses the official of having misappropriated 1.7 and 2.9 million dirhams respectively from the budgets allocated to landscaping and catering.

Previously, the judge at the same court had ordered the pre-trial detention of the hospital’s tax collector at the Oukacha prison, following the audit report of a commission from the Ministry of Health. The individual had been found guilty of accounting irregularities, including the misappropriation of the hospital’s revenue.