Moroccan Gendarmes Sentenced in Drug Trafficking Corruption Case

On Thursday, the court of first instance of Souk El Arbaa handed down its judgment. The two gendarmes serving at the Lalla Mimouna brigade under the command of the royal gendarmerie of Souk El Arbaa were sentenced to ten months in prison for corruption and blackmail. As for the drug trafficker, who had filmed the scene implicating them, he was sentenced to eight months in prison for defamation, reports the Arabic daily Al Akhbar.

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The outbreak of this case was the dissemination of a video showing a drug trafficker handing over money to two gendarmes so that they would not hold his criminal activity against him. In the same video, the drug baron negotiates with one of the gendarmes the exemption from a fine in exchange for a sum of money. The dissemination of the video led the regional command of the royal gendarmerie of Kénitra to order the opening of an investigation. Elements of a special brigade under the central services of the gendarmerie then carried out a raid in the Gharb region.

The investigations bore fruit. The investigators quickly arrested the drug trafficker. They then arrested the gendarme, the main actor in the negotiations on the amount of the bribery, then managed to arrest his accomplice at the Ouaouize