In Rabat and Casablanca, car rental companies caught in drug money laundering

The investigations are focusing on the leaders of two specific companies linked to a smuggling network. According to initial findings, a portion of the illicit gains from this trafficking is being reinvested in Moroccan territory through the creation of companies managed by local partners. The scheme relies on the acquisition of vehicles from agencies based in Spain and affiliated with the criminal organization. These cars are then operated in Morocco, thereby facilitating the direct integration of this dirty money into the official economic circuit.

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To justify particularly high financial inflows, the fraudsters allegedly resort extensively to phantom services. As Assabah points out, the accounting audit revealed the repetition of the same names on reservation receipts, confirming the hypothesis of fictitious operations. This method aims to legitimize suspicious funds before their transfer abroad through commercial transactions with other members of the network. Judicial investigations continue to trace the entire path of this money and dismantle all potential branches of the operation.