Moroccan Land Fraud Scandal: Dead Signatures Found on Property Contracts

The judicial expertise revealed that a man and a woman, who had died years before the date of the conclusion of the acts, had signed two adoulaire contracts. Similarly, the expertise showed that the people involved in this land spoliation had tried to register three plots of land in the land registry using two falsified adoulaire deeds, reports Assabah. The area of these plots is about 6 hectares and their value reaches several million dirhams.

Among them, one of the plots is a property that the State had recovered from the French protectorate in 1973, specifies the same source. The accused had used an adoulaire deed drawn up in 1957 to file their registration application. A deception to make believe that they had bought the land from some of their relatives. However, the expertise proves that this is a falsified deed.

The accused presented an additional contract that confirmed the conclusions of the expert report. This document specifies the identity of the sellers, including a relative, who died in 1952. So, five years before the date of the disputed deed.

The judicial expertise also showed that the deed does not bear the name of the notary or the adoul who drafted it.