Moroccan Surgeon Hassan Tazi Case: Wiretaps Reveal Evidence in Human Trafficking Investigation

We now know more about how the justice system managed to obtain evidence before the famous plastic surgeon Hassan Tazi, his brother, his wife Tazi and other alleged accomplices were arrested and prosecuted for human trafficking, fraud and document forgery. Seized by the prosecutor at the Casablanca Court of Appeal, the first president of the same Court had ordered a secret investigation, including telephone tapping carried out for nearly two and a half months, in accordance with the provisions of Article 108 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, reports the Arabic-language daily Assabah. These were incoming and outgoing calls from the surgeon’s clinic.

These telephone tappings not only helped identify Hassan Tazi and his wife’s alleged accomplices, but also uncover the modus operandi of the misappropriation of donations intended to finance the care of needy patients. These irrefutable evidence also allowed the alleged accomplices to confess. This is the case of M.B., the surgeon’s wife, who eventually admitted that she had paid 10% or even 20% of the donations to Zineb B., an intermediary recruited for her ability to convince and collect donations, ranked second in the order of criminal responsibility in this case.