Royal Palace Staff Implicated in Million-Dirham Red Mercury Scam

The daily Assabah explains that two palace employees would have made a woman believe that they would act as intermediaries so that she could do business with a retired colonel and professionals in the red mercury trade.

The palace employees would have given this woman a bad check and claimed that they had bought 3 grams of red mercury for the sum of one million dirhams. It seems, according to the newspaper, that these 3 grams would have really been sold for one million dirhams, but that 600,000 dirhams of this sale would have returned to the palace employees.

The alleged victim, a woman whose husband is a lawyer, decided to bring the case to justice by filing a complaint with the Rabat public prosecutor’s office.