Israeli Passport Fraud Ring Trial Delayed in Morocco

The accused in this case will have to wait a few more days before being informed of their fate. The magistrate in charge of this trial, Ali Tarchi, had postponed the new hearing initially scheduled for Thursday, November 7, 2019, reports Barlamane.

This file of traffickers, uncovered in August, was operating clandestinely to help Israelis obtain false administrative documents. The cat was let out of the bag when one of these Israeli nationals, a repeat offender wanted by Interpol, was caught in August.

His links with the criminal network dismantled in March, "which forges by fraudulent methods" Moroccan documents and passports, have since been established, the statement from the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) reported.

Without the collaboration of the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), this fifty-year-old would have obtained a Moroccan national identity card and passport, using forged documents, thanks to the fraudulent procedures applied by the criminal network being tried in this case.

His modus operandi has been widely explained by the DGSN. According to its statement, the criminal network is responsible for forging birth certificates for the benefit of Israeli citizens who do not have Moroccan origins, in order to obtain false certificates of non-registration in the civil status.

The objective, according to the same document, is to include them in judicial case files to claim authorization for registration in the civil status and, subsequently, obtain birth certificates with the identities of Moroccan Jews.

It should be noted that the main suspect, wanted by Interpol under a red notice issued on January 17, 2019, would be involved in several murders and an attempted murder, as part of settling scores between organized criminal networks.