Morocco Cracks Down on Real Estate Fraud with Stricter Penalties for Professionals

The issue is addressed by the newspaper Al Ahdath Al Maghribia this Tuesday, which indicates that the Ministry of Justice has just proposed a bill that has just been debated in the Justice, Legislation and Human Rights Committee of the House of Representatives. Specifically, it proposes to bring order to the sanctions against professionals such as judges, notaries, adouls or even lawyers convicted in cases of dispossession.

Prison sentences ranging from 10 to 20 years and fines ranging from 100,000 to 200,000 dirhams are thus planned for offenders under this new text drafted by the Ministry of Justice. These penalties are primarily intended to deter professionals from deviating towards illegality.

To reach a compromise on this text, several departments as well as public bodies and administrations have been consulted. It will now be a matter of rigorously applying the law to put an end to the phenomenon that unfortunately affects many Moroccans residing abroad.