The judicial chamber of the Criminal Court of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of Rabat settled last week the case of fraud and theft of real estate and colossal funds from the residential account of Widadiyya, in which a former parliamentarian from Skhirat was prosecuted, as well as his son and his brother, as well as intermediaries, brokers and notaries, after years of investigations and marathon trials.
The aforementioned judicial body issued judgments requiring an effective prison sentence of one and a half years against the former parliamentarian, an influential personality in Skhirat and the prefecture of Temara, while it sentenced his brother and son to one year of effective imprisonment for each of them, while the court shocked the defendants in the case by deciding to support the civil claims in favor of the housing association concerned and by demanding civil rights, it decided to compensate him in solidarity with a sum of money estimated at two billion. and 700 million centimes.
The court sentenced the defendants in the first instance and on appeal with judicial decisions that the defense of the civil rights association considered lenient, since it sentenced the parliamentarian, his brother and his son to one year in prison suspended and a fine of 5,000 dirhams, the three defendants acting jointly and severally in favor of the claim of civil rights, namely the Ibn Sina Social Development Association, in the person of its legal representative, a total compensation of 27 million dirhams.
In mid-2023, the Court of Cassation issued a ruling to put back to square one a controversial real estate case, linked to the scandal of embezzlement and misappropriation of more than two billion centimes from the account of a home in Skhirat, which was followed by notaries, brokers, administrators and a former parliamentarian from the region, accompanied by his brother and son.
