Moroccan City Loses $5 Million in Apartment Fraud Scheme, Rights Group Reports

In a press release quoted by the site Al Oâmk, the ONDH reveals that 18 apartments located in the center of the city opposite the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, whose value exceeds 50 million DH, have been subtracted. These apartments had been offered free of charge to the local authority of the city by the construction company "Clayris" as established by the municipal decision No. 98/2011 dated August 12, 2011, and the correspondence with the General Inspectorate of Territorial Administration of the Ministry of the Interior No. 4/2531 of 04/05/2012.

A complaint for "theft and fraud of municipal property" has then been filed with the Attorney General of the King near the court of Tetouan. The apartments were not officially registered, as required by law, in the register of collective property of the municipality, and in the land registry records. According to the ONDH, it is "a crime accomplished and a manifest case of corruption". The observatory calls for an investigation to be opened and for the director of the Clayris company and all the officials who may have been involved in this case to be questioned.

In 2015, the ONDH had sent a letter to the governor to alert him about this case.