Villa California Casablanca: fraud allegations, Saïd Naciri and court revelations

21 November 2025 – bySaid · 2 min read

The trial in the so-called “Villa California” case took a decisive turn this Thursday before the Casablanca Court of Appeal. The deputy public prosecutor delivered a damning indictment against Saïd Naciri, former president of Wydad, and former parliamentarian Kacem Belmir, asserting that the transfer of the property was based on all-out fraud.

The public prosecutor’s representative stated that the villa had never legally belonged to El Kacem Belmir before being transferred to Saïd Naciri. He described the property-transfer and payment contracts as irregular, stressing that “anything based on forgery is false.” The prosecution highlighted inconsistencies in Belmir’s account, which linked the case to a request for accommodation allegedly made by the drug lord Ahmed Ben Brahim while looking for a restaurant in Saïdia, a version deemed “meaningless” and intended to conceal criminal acts.

The prosecution also dismantled the notarized contract dated 17 July 2017. This document is considered an “intellectual forgery” based on a falsified power of attorney. The magistrate pointed to a major financial anomaly: the sale price stated in 2017 was identical to that of 2013, completely ignoring the surge in real-estate prices in this sought-after neighborhood during that period, which, in his view, rules out the buyer’s good faith.

Invalid checks and a company with negligible capital

The material evidence presented by the prosecution seeks to prove the fraudulent nature of the transaction. The acquisition was made in the name of a company owned by Naciri and his son, whose capital did not exceed 100,000 dirhams, while the transaction amounted to 1.65 million dirhams. Moreover, the company had been registered at the villa’s address even before it owned the property.

The prosecutor further revealed that the checks used for payment came from a company with which Saïd Naciri had had no connection since 2007, making them devoid of evidentiary value. Describing the explanations concerning the furnishing of the villa with Iranian carpets as illogical, the magistrate called for the defendants to be convicted on all charges, as well as for the confiscation of funds derived from drug trafficking and the destruction of the forged documents.

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