Moroccan Mayors Face Trial for Financial Crimes in Rabat Court

After judicial investigations and referral to the public prosecutor, the time has come for these mayors to appear. One of them is accused of having granted subsidies to fictitious associations for electoral and political purposes, reports Al Massae. Another is suspected of having concluded transactions with companies without calls for tenders or specifications.

Based on the reports of the Court of Auditors which identified serious dysfunctions in the management of the incriminated municipalities, investigations were carried out for months. These investigations proved fruitful. The investigators found the absence of registers for signing in materials, values and purchase orders. Worse, these elected officials took charge of expenses that are not within the remit of the municipalities, such as the supply of fuel for vehicles belonging to authority agents.