Police Commissioner and Bank Director Jailed for $260,000 Embezzlement Scheme in Morocco

The chief commissioner serving in Agadir and the director of a bank agency in Tiznit had been sentenced to the same sentences at first instance for the same facts, reports the daily Al Akhbar, specifying that the criminal chamber in charge of financial crimes at the Marrakech Court of Appeal only confirmed this decision of the court which had also ordered them to repay the 2,641,732 dirhams embezzled and to pay 260,000 dirhams in damages.

The two defendants were brought before the criminal chamber in charge of financial crimes at the Marrakech Court of Appeal in March 2022 by the National Brigade of the Judicial Police (BNPJ) of Casablanca. The BNPJ investigators discovered that the commissioner had received the sum of one million dirhams out of the 2.79 million dirhams embezzled by the director of a bank agency in Tiznit. The latter explains to the agents that she was paying the silence of the commissioner, her lover, who was threatening to reveal her private life.

Faced with the commissioner’s incessant demands, she ended up dipping into the public and private funds of the bank agency to satisfy the latter. After the BNPJ completed its investigation, the chief commissioner was suspended by the General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) which will also take disciplinary action against him once the judicial procedures are completed.