Large-scale fraud detected by Moroccan customs

The scheme consisted of importing goods benefiting from exemptions before illegally transferring them to clandestine warehouses. According to sources close to the case cited by Hespress, "these entities quickly disappeared from the field of surveillance exercised by the ex-post control" of the customs administration. Investigators discovered that many declarations contained erroneous storage addresses, making physical checks almost impossible for the authorities.

The investigations are particularly focused on the port of Casablanca, a major entry point for these cargoes from China. The incriminated companies generally ceased all activity shortly after making a few massive imports without ever recording any export operations. Faced with these findings, the National Brigade has launched a comprehensive inventory of suspicious transactions carried out over the past four years to identify the true beneficiaries of these diversions.

The customs administration plans to transfer these files to the justice system to initiate criminal proceedings and recover the amounts owed to the public treasury. Two companies based in Casablanca are currently in the sights of the authorities for having created companies in the name of third parties in order to conceal their activities. The use of the "BADR" computer system now makes it possible to better target these behaviors thanks to increasingly efficient risk analysis algorithms.