Morocco’s Top Prosecutor Intensifies Anti-Corruption Efforts, Orders Swift Investigations

If the fight against corruption had taken on great proportions, today it is even more so. Mohamed Abdennabaoui has just set the tone through a letter addressed to the prosecutors in which he specifies "the need to open investigations each time they obtain information on acts of corruption through the national and regional brigades of the judicial police". He also stressed the need for collaboration between the brigades, in order to "close the investigations as soon as possible".

The King’s Attorney General then called for taking the legal provisions relating to the collection of evidence and the identification of offenders, through the application of the provisions for the protection of witnesses, experts and victims, according to the procedure of the Penal Code, reports Telquel.

Mohamed Abdennabaoui also calls for perfect collaboration between the investigating judges, the judges of the courts of appeal and the judges of the courts of first instance. All this "in respect of the rights of the accused and the guarantee of a fair and equitable trial".

The head of the prosecution wants justice to be irreproachable and to do things according to the rules of the art, in the fight against corruption in Morocco. While recalling that corruption constitutes a real obstacle to all development models and a danger to the rule of law, he invites each player in the judicial system to properly play his role to eradicate this scourge, the same source specifies.