Moroccan Notary Sentenced to 5 Years for Financial Crimes in Agadir

In addition to the prison sentence, the notary was also fined 100,000 dirhams. He is also required to pay the plaintiff 18,380,311 dirhams, plus one million dirhams. He was prosecuted for breach of trust and issuing checks without provision, but was acquitted on the charge of fraud, reports the Arabic daily Assabah.

The notary’s legal troubles began after the filing of several fraud complaints in Marrakech. The plaintiffs discovered that he had provided them with checks without provision. Arrested, he will be brought before the Public Prosecutor’s Office last May. His first hearing in custody took place on August 26.