It is a sort of wedding gift which has caused incomprehension among certain financiers who wonder how such a sum could have crossed national borders to land or rather land on the other side of the Atlantic, on the golden beaches. from Miami.
Celebrated on April 27, 2024 in Marrakech, the marriage of Malik, son of Anas Sefrioui, real estate magnate, with Kenza Akhannouch, the daughter of the current head of government, was worthy of the tales of the Arabian Nights. The sumptuous wedding lasted four days and four nights, attended by hundreds of hand-picked guests, many of them from abroad, transported aboard private jets. Cell phones were confiscated at the entrance to prevent behind-the-scenes filming of the ceremony. Many curious people have speculated about the cost of this wedding. What does it matter! The crunchiest part is elsewhere.
Over there, in distant America, more precisely in Florida where a real estate transaction hit the headlines both in the United States and in Morocco. A few days after the famous wedding, the American press revealed a surprising indiscretion. Thursday May 2, 2024, the very serious American newspaper Miami Herald tells us that the happy married man from Marrakech, Malik Sefrioui, has acquired a sumptuous residence, feet in the water, on Hibiscus Island in Miami. A simple pied-à-terre which cost our young and dashing Malik a whopping $15.375 million. In words, fifteen million three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
A sort of wedding gift which did not fail to provoke the jealousy of young single women, of course, but above all the incomprehension of certain financiers who wondered how such a sum could have crossed national borders to land or rather ditch on the island. other side of the Atlantic, on the golden beaches of Miami. The nagging question is whether this sum indeed benefited from authorization from the foreign exchange office. Because, we are told, our public finances are drying up and inflation is compressing our foreign currency reserves. What does 15 million dollars – or 150 million dirhams – represent when you can bask on the beach in Miami, side by side with Hollywood stars and billionaires from Uncle Sam’s country? Epsilon…
Jewelry designer
In any case, the young vice-president of the cement group Ciments de l’Atlas-Ciments de l’Afrique, founded by his father Anas in 2007 in Casablanca, did not deprive himself of indulging in this little whim. The property purchased as a second home, on Hibiscus Island, is located on a plot of 2000 m2, with a 30 meter frontage overlooking the water, a dock and a swimming pool. It is a house steeped in history, dating from 1930, six years before the victory of the Popular Front. But Malik Sefrioui, barely in his thirties, does not care about historical references since this house will be completely demolished to be rebuilt.
That said, Mr. Malik Sefrioui is unknown to the Miami media circle. What, however, aroused the interest of our American colleagues was the seller. This is Paul Morelli, a famous jewelry designer whose high-end collections are offered at Mayors, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman and so on… Happy who, like the young couple Sefrioui-Akhannouch, has paid a little corner of paradise in Miami… Of course!.
