Morocco Seizes Assets of Lawmakers Convicted in Anti-Corruption Crackdown

These chambers have convicted defendants to prison sentences in recent weeks and ordered the seizure of their assets and bank accounts acquired and opened after May 3, 2007, the date of entry into force of the law on the fight against money laundering, indicate judicial sources to Al Akhbar, specifying that the parliamentarians and commune presidents already convicted of embezzlement and misappropriation of public funds should soon be brought before these chambers and see their assets as well as those of their wives and children seized.

The files of corruption dealt with by the chambers in charge of financial crimes have increased in 2023, according to the Attorney General of the King at the Court of Cassation, El Hassan Daki, who specifies that the public prosecutor’s office has received 14 reports from the Court of Auditors and four reports from the central inspections of certain ministries and public institutions. Similarly, money laundering cases have also seen an increase over the past two years, a period during which FATF (Financial