Casablanca: Opening of an investigation into the spoliation of property

The King’s Attorney General at the Casablanca Court of Appeal has just ordered the opening of an investigation into a complex case relating to the spoliation of abandoned properties. The daily Assabahwhich reports the information in its delivery on Monday, May 5, speaks of business in which “Individuals have appropriated these goods using questionable contracts, securities and certificates, followed by registration procedures based on these documents ”. They exploit ignorance of the initial owners or the abandoned status of these goods, which have not been subject to legal procedures to declare them with the properties of the State or individuals.

According to sources cited by Assabahthe National Brigade of the Judicial Police in Casablanca was responsible for investigating this complex file “Having involved hundreds of documents and certificates suspected of being falsified or manufactured from scratch. These documents aim to create a fictitious situation of new owners to obtain land titles, in order to sell targeted properties, the value of which reaches billions today, due to the urban expansion that the city knew».

“The properties concerned by the survey are on the outskirts of Casablanca, especially in the Sidi Massaoud area and its surroundings”, specifies the daily. Suspicions point to a person considered “The brain of a multi -party network, whose ramifications involve civil servants, copyists of property securities and various documents extracted from the old notarial registers, kept at the Casablanca family and social affairs court ”.

The same sources specify that the name of the alleged chief of the network emerged during the Pandemic of COVID-19, precisely at the end of 2021, after the arrest of an official exercising in an administrative annex of Sidi Massaoud. “”The latter was involved in the falsification of administrative certificates used in land registration procedures. These certificates, essential official documents to constitute a registration request file, specify the nature of the property, its owners and distinguish it from the land of the State ”.

The suspect relies on a vast network of relationships and his expertise in the field of non -registered properties. “He uses authentic administrative certificates, previously used for land registration belonging to his grandfather, certificates that have become deciduous after this use. He then reproduces fictitious property securities from the tribunal registers, which he inserts in the incorporation registers“, Specifies the daily.

By this method, “The suspect has integrated falsified securities into the incorporation registers, in collusion with certain copyists, to continue the appropriation procedure. He then opens up registration requests »explains the daily.

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