Moroccan Governor Robbed of $20,000 by Fake Police Officers, Manhunt Underway

Brazen thugs who pose as real police officers and manage to pull off such a coup, with a Governor! It is the Arabic-language daily, Assabah, in its issue of Wednesday, July 3, that reports the information.

In its description of the facts, the newspaper talks about individuals who entered the vehicle of the official, in Bouknadel, and stole its contents before fleeing. Assabah mentions the sum of 200,000 dirhams that went up in smoke.

Once alerted by the night guard, the director of the service within the annex of the Ministry of the Interior, in Hay Riad, in Rabat, immediately contacted the security services of Salé, writes the media, which adds that the guard was questioned by the police. But he would have been well duped by the thugs who had carefully prepared their coup by posing as police officers.

"Questioned by the police, the guard explained that he had approached the thieves, asking them why they were searching the vehicle. One of them had ordered him to leave the premises, introducing himself as a police officer, explaining that this search was part of a police investigation," writes Assabah, adding that "the police services as well as those of the Royal Gendarmerie quickly went to the scene of the theft to elucidate the circumstances of this criminal act."

A nationwide wanted notice has already been issued, concludes the same media.