Moroccan Lawmaker Jailed in $60 Million Bank and Government Fraud Case

The UC elected official was arrested following complaints filed by the Oum Er-Rbia Hydraulic Basin Agency, the Commercial Court and a local bank, reports Assabah. He is accused of fraud, forgery and issuing bounced checks. The amount of the fraud amounts to more than 600 million dirhams.

The parliamentarian elected in the last legislative elections of September 8, 2021 managed to obtain funds from the Oum Er-Rbia Hydraulic Basin Agency by issuing him checks without provision, handed over to the Commercial Court checks without provision to repay his debts to third parties and extorted more than 300 million dirhams in loans and overdraft facilities from a bank through a fuel distribution company.

The implicated elected official did not act alone. His accomplices, two bankers and two authority auxiliaries, were also arrested and then taken into custody. On Wednesday, the King’s Prosecutor at the Court of First Instance of Ain Sebâa ordered the provisional detention of the parliamentarian.