Moroccan Authorities Bust Sextortion Ring Targeting Wealthy Gulf Nationals

It all started with a proposal for virtual and rigged sexual relations on social networks via a live video streaming application. The blackmailer was posing as a woman. Many wealthy Gulf nationals were forced to transfer large sums of money to the network he was running. He offered the manager of a money transfer agency in Benguerir to pay him the transferred amounts without having to reveal his identity in exchange for a commission on each transaction, reports the Arabic daily Assabah.

Despite the sums received, the mastermind of the network continued to harass the Gulf nationals, asking them to pay him more money. Otherwise, he would disseminate the compromising videos. Exasperated, the victims filed a complaint with the public prosecutor’s office, which tasked the BNPJ with conducting an investigation. Two individuals residing in Dakhla and the manager of the money transfer agency in Benguerir will be arrested and then brought before the prosecutor of the king near the criminal court of first instance of Casablanca. The first two were incarcerated in the Oukacha prison, while the third is being prosecuted on provisional release. According to the two co-accused, the manager of the money transfer agency was unaware of the network’s activities.

As for the mastermind of the network, he is still on the run. He was tasking his two accomplices residing in Dakhla to travel to Benguerir to collect the money from the scams from the money transfer agency manager.