Moroccan Court Acquits Police Officers in High-Profile Judicial Corruption Case

The two police officers are now free to move around, reports Barlamane. The court of first instance of Aïn Sebaâ in Casablanca had sentenced the "broker" of the courts to 5 years in prison with a fine of 5,000 dirhams, and one of his accomplices to 3 years in prison and a fine of 9,000 dirhams.

In a video, the "broker" appears to be negotiating with a woman whose mother he claimed to help obtain a sentence reduction, in exchange for a sum of 40,000 dirhams.

The investigations, carried out by the prefectural judicial police service of Casablanca, had made it possible to discover that this intermediary was the subject of a wanted notice in another case of fraud where he was posing as the king’s prosecutor, had indicated a press release from the king’s prosecutor.

The same source specified that he had also been convicted for similar acts of fraud. Similarly, the investigation had shown that there was no link between the man in the video and the judicial authority that had dealt with the detainee’s case.