A. Mahyawi – Heba Press
The Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal responsible for the dissemination of financial crimes in the city of Fez decided, yesterday Wednesday, to lift the sentence in its judgments in the case of falsification and brokerage of equipment at the Ibn Beja regional hospital in Taza.
The court confirmed the preliminary ruling issued by the Criminal Chamber of First Instance, sentencing the director of the Ibn Baja hospital in Taza to 4 years in prison.
The Appeals Chamber for Financial Crimes also upheld the sentence handed down to the head of logistics equipment at Ibn Baja Regional Hospital, where he had initially been sentenced to four years in prison.
In the same case, the Criminal Appeals Chamber also sentenced the employees of the aforementioned health facility to one and a half years in prison, the same sentence as that handed down to a head nurse who worked in the same facility, who was also sentenced in the same case. to 8 months in prison for the head of security at the hospital.
In the same case, the Criminal Court of Appeal decided to lift the sentence initially handed down against three doctors who owned private clinics, and increased the sentence handed down against them from six months of actual imprisonment for each of them to one year of imprisonment.
It is worth noting that the 12 defendants were arrested by the Public Prosecution on charges related to accusations of embezzlement and squandering of public funds, undue influence, corruption, taking advantage of an institution it manages, falsifying official documents and their use, participating in the embezzlement and squandering of public funds, and concealing something obtained from a crime, against the backdrop of suspicion of transferring medical materials, equipment and supplies, in mysterious circumstances, belonging to the aforementioned hospital for the benefit of two private clinics in the city of Taza.
