This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
Heba Press Abdel Latif Baraka
Yesterday, Saturday January 18, the prosecution at the Marrakech Court of Appeal ordered the detention of the head of the Aflaysen territorial community of Chichaoua province, belonging to the Authenticity and Modernity Party (Jarrar), in the local prison. from Ouadaïa.
According to available information, the collective leader was arrested by the security services of Marrakech, after the criminal appeal chamber specializing in financial crimes at the Court of Appeal issued an arrest warrant against him in absentia.
The Criminal Chamber of First Instance responsible for financial crimes of the same court concluded its deliberations in the case of the head of the Aflaysen group, belonging to the Authenticity and Modernity Party, and three other defendants on May 26, 2022, after deliberations which lasted about two years.
The court rendered a judgment finding the defendants guilty of the charges against them, with Mubarak Ait Bihi and Hussein Bihi sentenced to two years in prison and fined 100,000 dirhams each. A two-year prison sentence, suspended for one year, was also handed down against Al-Hassan Benjoud, in addition to a fine of 100,000 dirhams. As for Yassin Al-Huwairi, he was sentenced to one year in prison and a fine of 5,000 dirhams, with the defendants having to bear at least the burden and physical constraint.
The facts of the case are that the defendants are accused of “waste of public funds falling within their professional responsibility and forgery”, in the context of a project to dig a well to supply drinking water to the community of Aflaysen, for which a financial envelope of 220 thousand dirhams was allocated.
