Conviction of prominent security officials whose corruption scandals were revealed by inspection committee reports.

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Prominent security officials whose corruption scandals were revealed by inspection committee reports.

In this context, the Rabat Court of Appeal, late on Friday evening, convicted a regional police brigadier to 4 and a half years in prison, and an excellent police brigadier to 3 and a half years, with compensation of 11 million centimes paid to each of them.

The court also issued rulings once morest an urban authority leader and a police brigadier to two and a half years in prison each, and a security officer with two years in prison and a fine of 5,000 dirhams, while it sentenced a contractor prosecuted in the same case to two years in prison and a fine of 20,000 dirhams.

The judicial body also decided that all defendants should pay compensation amounting to 12 million dirhams to the General Directorate of National Security. It also convicted two other people who were on probation, and sentenced them to 10 months of suspended imprisonment and a 5,000 dirham fine. After they were charged with acts of participation in preparing and using a forged document.

The first threads in this case date back to April 2022. When a central inspection committee affiliated with the General Directorate of National Security detected suspicions of squandering and embezzlement of public funds in one of the deals, which prompted the National Judicial Police Division to enter the investigation line and refer the security officials involved to justice in case of arrest.

The General Directorate of National Security confirmed, in a statement issued at the time, that it “decided to temporarily suspend the security officials involved in this file from work, pending the end of the judicial process,” and that “these measures aim to strengthen the principles of security governance, link responsibility to accountability, and consolidate the facility structure in The police force.”