Moroccan Officials Face Scrutiny: 100 Lawmakers and Mayors Fail to Declare Assets

The First President of the Court of Auditors has just submitted to the head of government a blacklist of one hundred personalities, mainly composed of parliamentarians and commune presidents who have not made their asset declaration. Driss Jettou affirmed, before Parliament, to have submitted to the head of the Executive, the list of elected officials who have not been able to regularize their situation, even though they have already received a formal notice, as stipulated by law, notes the daily Assabah.

During his appearance before the two Houses of Parliament, meeting in joint session, the President of the Court of Auditors stressed that the financial courts had received more than 232,339 asset declarations since 2010, the date of entry into force of the law establishing this system, and no less than 9,387 declarations received by the courts during the year 2018, reports the daily. Driss Jettou emphasized the increase in the number of control missions carried out by the latter in his presentation on the assessment of the action of the Court of Auditors and the Regional Courts of Auditors during the year in question.

Thus, in 2018, some 274 missions were carried out, compared to 160 over the previous two years. Their action has also seen a diversification of the areas of intervention and has covered all the vital public sectors, with an increase in missions for the transversal evaluation of programs and public policies.