Four countries, including Morocco, have been placed under surveillance by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). They are accused of failing in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing.
The trial of members of the Franco-Serbian money laundering network who were sending money to Morocco and other countries opened in Rennes last Wednesday and continues until Thursday, February 18. The defendants face sentences of up to ten years in prison.
The French authorities have just issued a blacklist of Moroccan businessmen and politicians, accused of trafficking and money laundering in Morocco, via the port of Sète.
Five men were indicted in Marseille on Friday in the context of a vast money laundering case in an organized gang between the Maghreb and France for a sum estimated at more than 8 million euros.
Involved in a money laundering network, a notary was sentenced to a suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay the Moroccan Customs Administration the sum of 13 million dirhams. The other members of the network were sentenced to prison terms of up to seven years.
The court of first instance in Marrakech sentenced, on Monday, 6 French people, members of a money laundering, drug trafficking and currency trafficking network, to prison terms of 5 to 7 years. The judge ordered the release of the money changer, following an amicable arrangement with the Customs Administration.
The judicial police of Seine-Saint-Denis seized 480 kg of cannabis resin in a warehouse in Courbevoie on November 26. Five alleged traffickers were arrested and then indicted "for money laundering, criminal conspiracy, transport, possession, acquisition and importation of drugs".
A currency and drug trafficking network, which excels in money laundering, has been dismantled by the Marrakech police. Among the members of this criminal gang in detention, there are four French nationals and a foreign exchange agent.
The gendarmes of the research section of Clermont-Ferrand and Grenoble have dismantled an international drug trafficking network between Morocco and France, via Clermont-Ferrand, the landing point for the traffickers.
The police in Marrakech arrested four Frenchmen suspected of belonging to a money laundering and drug trafficking network.
Morocco reaffirms its determination to support international efforts to combat organized crime in its various forms. This is what the Minister of Justice, Mohamed Ben Abdelkader, declared on Friday in Tetouan.
In Brussels, the federal prosecutor’s office is investigating the Mocro mafia suspected of having laundered 367 million euros. This sum of money transited through Belgium in a drug case.