The British gas company Sound Energy announces that it has lost its lawsuit against the General Tax Administration, which had claimed $2.55 million in taxes from it after it bought Schlumberger’s assets in Morocco. The company intends to appeal.
The files of nine mayors on whom there are strong suspicions of embezzlement of public funds and breach of trust have been handed over to the justice system. Some risk, depending on the seriousness of the crimes they are accused of, a prison sentence.
The trial of the Moroccan Abdedaim C., residing in Palafrugell (Girona), accused of an alleged offense of apology for jihadist terrorism on his Facebook profile, opened on Thursday at the National Court. The prosecution has requested a sentence of 3 years in prison and the payment of a fine of 4,800 euros against him.
Three members of the Esprit de Fès Foundation were sentenced on Tuesday to a term of imprisonment and a fine. These legal troubles come a few days after the closing of the 26th edition of the Fez Festival of Sacred Music of the World.
A man is accused of having killed in 2018 in Almeria a Moroccan, then wrapped his body in plastic before abandoning it on a municipal embankment. The public prosecutor’s office is demanding 21 years in prison.
A former soldier who became a taxi driver in Salé was arrested by the judicial police of the Laâyayda district. Pending the opening of his trial next week, he has been detained for drug trafficking.
Morocco has refused the temporary handover of drug baron Sofiane Hambli, arrested in October 2021 in a clinic in Tangier , to France. As a result, his trial, which was to open on June 7, has been postponed to December 9.
Calls to prevent the execution of Moroccan fighter Brahim Saadoun have been multiplying in recent days. The latest is from the National Human Rights Council (CNDH).
Several people, including a Moroccan, are being prosecuted by the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office for their involvement in a fraud network through "SMS fishing" or "smishing". In total, about a hundred people were defrauded.
For having incited citizens to storm the public domain without having received authorization, several members and former municipal councilors of the Party of Justice and Development (PJD) are being prosecuted by the court of first instance of Tetouan.
In Morocco, two NGOs have written to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking him to intervene to suspend the execution of the death sentence handed down against the young pro-Ukrainian Moroccan fighter Brahim Saadoun, accused of being a mercenary.
This Monday, a third trial opened in the Zaragoza court against the Moroccan Mohamed Achraf and his Venezuelan wife, Hedangeline Candy Arrieta, better known as the "Badoo killers". The prosecution has requested 10 years and 9 months in prison against the couple for having kidnapped and tortured a resident of Tudela (Navarre) in 2019.