Moroccan Lawmaker’s Corruption Trial Delayed Amid Health Concerns

Involved in several cases of corruption, embezzlement of funds, waste of public funds, falsification of official documents and abuse of influence, El Fayek is being prosecuted while in custody.

In an intervention before the media present on the spot, his lawyer, Me Khalid El Bakkali, declared that he had filed during the videoconference hearing a request for his release, "due to the deterioration of his state of health", stressing that a fair trial requires the monitoring of his client to be released.

For his part, Maître Jawad Gnaoui, a lawyer at the Fez bar, pleaded for the provisional release of his client, stressing that "the parliamentarian Rachid El Fayek and his brother, Jawad, present all the guarantees of their presence at the next hearing...". The latter also demanded the provisional release of El Fayek’s secretary.