University President Ousted in Morocco’s "Sex for Grades" Scandal

Khadija Safi is paying the price for the scandals that occurred at the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences in Settat. According to informed sources, Abdellatif Miraoui, Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation, has dismissed the president of the University of Hassan I in Settat, Khadija Safi, and she has already been informed of the decision by a telephone call, reports the website AlOmk Almghribi.

Several convictions have been handed down by the court of first instance in Settat in the "sex for good grades" case at the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences in Settat. Two of the professors charged in this case were sentenced to two and a half years in prison. Acquittal was pronounced for one of them. Not to mention the non-prosecution of another due to prescription.

The head of the public law department was sentenced by the same court to one and a half years in prison and a fine of 7,000 DH. As for the professor of the history of political thought, he was sentenced to one year in prison and a fine of 5,000 DH. A compensation of 60,000 DH will have to be paid to the two plaintiffs in the civil party.

What about the fate of the two professors who were at liberty? "The Settat court decided not to prosecute the coordinator of the Public Finance master’s degree for the offense of psychological violence against a woman by a person in authority over her on the basis of Chapter 4 of the Penal Code, and its non-prosecution for the rest of the offenses due to the expiration of the statute of limitations," it was reported. The criminal chamber of the Settat Court of Appeal on Monday, March 21, 2022 sentenced the head of the economics department to two years in prison, thus confirming the decision of the first instance criminal chamber.