Moroccan Philanthropist Targeted in High-Stakes Fraud Scheme

The details of this fraud are reported by the newspaper Al Akhbar this Wednesday, March 6. According to the daily, a man presented himself at her home asking her for 30,000 dirhams to conduct tests for his son, who he said was suffering from a serious illness. Najia Nadhir would have then donated the sum but the latter returns a few days later and this time asks for the sum of 660,000 dirhams for a presumed hospitalization abroad that his son would need.

The businesswoman doubts his sincerity and contacts the royal gendarmerie, who quickly open their investigation. The man is thus arrested for fraud, as well as two other accomplices in Rabat and Casablanca. All three must appear before the judge today to clarify this whole affair.

To recall, Najia Nadhir announced last month the construction, with her first funds, of a high school in a rural commune of Ouled Fares, in the Settat region. She also released one million dirhams to finance the renovation work of a primary school, consisting of the replacement of three "prefabricated" classrooms, the construction of new classrooms, including one dedicated to preschool, and four sanitary blocks, as well as the restoration of the perimeter wall and the playground.