Moroccan Lawmaker and 12 Others Face Trial for Public Funds Misappropriation

The judge of the financial crimes chamber of the Court of Appeal of Rabat, in charge of the case, decided to summon and hear as a witness a municipal councilor regarding the irregularities noted in public contracts in the municipality of Ksar El Kebir, reports Al Akhbar.

In this case, the president of the municipality, Mohamed Simou, as well as 12 other people including two municipal councilors, two entrepreneurs and municipal officials, are being prosecuted for the misappropriation of public funds and embezzlement. The accused are also being prosecuted for conflict of interest for having acquired on behalf of the municipality a plot of land belonging to a municipal councilor.

On the order of the Attorney General of the King near the Court of Appeal of Rabat, Mohamed Simou had been heard in December last by the regional brigade of the judicial police of the wilaya of Rabat before being presented to the investigating judge who requested the listing of the bank accounts opened in the name of the president of the municipality and their freezing.