Oukacha Prison

Articles

• Morocco: Gendarmes Jailed in Drug-Related Corruption Scandal
  8 December 2023, by Sylvanus

  Two officials from the gendarmerie of Nouaceur and Deroua, as well as the wife of a drug trafficker, have been incarcerated in the Oukacha prison for corruption and blackmail.
  It all started with a dispute over an amount of money offered by the wife of the trafficker to avoid the arrest of her husband. Angry, the head of the Deroua gendarmerie "incited" the lady to file a complaint against his colleague, the head of Deroua, before the Attorney General of the King at the Casablanca Court (…)

• Moroccan Journalist Raïssouni Detained Amid Sexual Assault Investigation
  26 May 2020, by Ginette

  According to a well-informed source, "the accused was brought on Monday morning by the judicial police of Casablanca before the Attorney General of the King at the Court of Appeal of Casablanca, who in turn submitted him to the investigating judge of the same court". This is within the framework of an investigation into an indecent assault, consummated with violence and kidnapping, following a complaint filed by a person, reports the MAP.
  According to the same source, the hearing will (…)

• Moroccan Official Arrested for Passport Bribery Scheme in Casablanca
  5 January 2020, by Sylvanus

  A caïd working in the prefecture of Sidi Bernoussi was detained in the Oukacha prison, after a woman denounced him through the anti-corruption hotline. He had demanded a bribe of 500 dirhams from her to speed up the procedure for issuing her passport.
  The head of the passport service in the prefecture of Sidi Bernoussi paid the price for his misconduct. By demanding a bribe of 500 dirhams from a woman to speed up the procedure for issuing her passport, he was far from imagining that he (…)

• Casablanca Official’s $1.6 Million Fortune Seized in Corruption Case
  20 January 2020, by Sylvanus

  In addition to this conviction, the assets of the caïd of the "Laymoune" administrative annex of the Hay Hassani district of Casablanca will be confiscated, reports Barlamane. This includes a bank account of 16 million dirhams and two plots of land.
  The Court of Appeal also confirmed the judgments rendered at first instance against the co-defendants in this case, the same source specifies. Among them, a bailiff already sentenced to four years in prison and the owner of a well drilling (…)

• Moroccan Official Implicated in Cross-Border Drug Money Scheme with Algeria
  18 January 2024, by Sylvanus

  New revelations have been made about the case of Lhaj Ahmed Benbrahim alias "Escobar of the Desert", the Malian imprisoned in the El Jadida prison since 2019, then transferred to the Oukacha prison.
  Abdenbi Bioui, president of the Oriental Region, and also a member of the political bureau of the PAM imprisoned in the context of the "Escobar of the Desert" case, would have coordinated with a former Algerian MP the transfer of money from drug trafficking using jet skis to go to Algeria from (…)

• Moroccan Businesswoman Jailed for Bad Check, Files Complaint Against Husband
  22 February 2019, by Said

  The case of Hind Achabi is experiencing new twists and turns following the detention of the businesswoman in a dark story of issuing a bad check.
  The businesswoman has just broken her silence by releasing a statement published by her lawyer. She acknowledges the authenticity of the check, however claiming that it, signed in blank, is dated July 2016. At that time, Achabi had just given birth and had entrusted her husband Karim Bennani to use it if necessary for the management of the (…)

• Moroccan Businesswoman Released After Paying $4.2 Million for Bounced Check
  7 March 2019, by Said

  The Moroccan businesswoman Hind Achabi left the prison where she has been incarcerated for nearly a month for a dark story of a bounced check.
  Cited by the Goud site, her lawyer says that his client left the Oukacha prison in Casablanca after paying the sum of 42 million dirhams, the amount of this check that would have been signed in 2016 in the name of her company, the "Dalia Company" and not in her personal name. At that time, Achabi had just given birth and had entrusted, she says, (…)

• Rif Protest Leader’s Mother Resumes European Tour, Defies Arrest Warnings
  8 March 2019, by Amine

  Mother and son probably resemble each other, to the point that Nasser Zefzafi would have warned his mother, Zoulikha Si Haddou, that she risked "joining" him in the Oukacha prison.
  After an absence for health reasons (the treatment of breast cancer), Zoulikha Si Haddou, the mother of the leader of the Rif Hirak Nasser Zefzafi, has just started her European tour again, which aims to support her son as well as all the convicted Hirak activists.
  At a meeting held last Thursday in Paris, (…)

• Moroccan Hirak Prisoner Claims Repeated Denial of Mother’s Photo in Oukacha Jail
  10 March 2019, by Amine

  The Hirak rifain detainee Nabil Ahmjiq is said to have insisted and begged to be allowed to have a photo of his mother, without success. Four attempts to get it, four failures.
  Cited by AlYaoum24, Ahmjiq, sentenced during the Hirak of the Rif to 20 years in prison, claims that the management of the Aïn Sebaâ, Oukacha prison, last Wednesday "prohibited him from bringing in a photo of his mother, for the fourth consecutive time", and therefore "deprived him of seeing the face of the being (…)

• Prominent Casablanca Lawyer Blackmailed for Years, Suspect Arrested
  18 January 2020, by Kamal

  According to the website Aljarida24, the accused, arrested in Hay Oulfa, is being prosecuted by the Attorney General at the Casablanca Court of Appeal for having blackmailed a lawyer for more than 4 years.
  During this entire period, the victim complied with the will of the young woman and her sister, regularly handing them large sums of money in a cafe in Hay Hassani. No information has been provided on the nature of their relationship.
  The accused is being prosecuted for prostitution (…)