Moroccan Judge Jailed in Corruption Scandal Involving Expat Case

The facts he is accused of date back to the time when he was on duty at the court of first instance of Mohammedia. It took six months of investigations under the authority of Najim Bensami, Attorney General of the King near the Court of Appeal of Casablanca, for dysfunctions, abuse of power, influence peddling and corruption to be revealed in a case that pitted a Moroccan resident abroad against other individuals, reports Assabah.

At the time, the deputy prosecutor of the king currently in prison had entrusted the file to gendarmes who are his accomplices. It was discovered that reports had been falsified by the judicial police. The public prosecutor’s office therefore opened an investigation to elucidate the case. The suspects’ phones were wiretapped. One of the litigants had filed a complaint with the head of the public prosecutor’s office, a complaint in which he accused the judge of corruption. This complaint followed the release of a relative of a defendant in custody.

The investigators listened to a telephone conversation in which a woman asked the judge to release one of her relatives in exchange for a certain sum of money. The release was effective. The only problem: the woman only gave him part of the sum. Subsequently, the official meets her, and abuses her. Other telephone calls also revealed that the judge had asked two police officers to falsify reports.