A crook who was active in various courts in the Marrakech-Safi region has just fallen into the hands of the police. The Essaouira Judicial Police services have just arrested this individual, suspected of having claimed to intercede in legal matters, which he claimed to people he approached near the courts.
Al Ahdath Al Maghribia from this Saturday June 15 to Tuesday June 18, 2024 indicates that this individual presented himself as being able to resolve any legal problem.
He was arrested following a complaint filed against him in Essaouira by a 26-year-old woman, who accused him of having robbed her of large sums and personal jewelry.
The individual allegedly claimed to this woman that he could intervene with the judge in charge of her case, in order to allow her to recover her rights in an inheritance case to which she was claiming. According to the daily, this woman’s father had just died, leaving several real estate assets. Unable to access this inheritance, this woman decided to turn to justice.
Instead of letting the procedure take its course, she followed the advice of one of her relatives who suggested that she get in touch with someone she knew, who, he told her, acted as a intermediary in the courts, and who could resolve all types of legal problems.
According to the story that actually Al Ahdath Al Maghribiathis individual she subsequently met, had no trouble convincing her, from their first meeting.
The scammer dangled various solutions conveniently suited to her case, and did everything possible to lure her, in order to make her fall into his trap.
He even asked her to bring, to a meeting they had later, a whole list of documents, which he had claimed he was going to present to a “lawyer friend”.
Of course, he had demanded money from him in exchange for his services: 30,000 dirhams, which he claimed was “deposit» that she was going to pay him, so that he could use the services of this lawyer.
When he was able to get his hands on this sum, the crook disappeared for around two weeks, then resumed contact with his victim, this time demanding an additional sum of 10,000 dirhams, which would be , he assured, paid to an official working at the Essaouira court where his legal case was ongoing, and which would, he claimed, allow the procedure to be accelerated.
Fifteen days later, same scenario: this time, the individual had contacted the young woman to announce a date, in fact false, during which the first hearing of her case would be held.
The crook also explained to his victim that if she wanted her case to be judged at the first hearing, she would still have to pay an additional sum of 20,000 dirhams.
Except that from now on, this woman, who no longer had any money, only had in her possession a few gold jewelry, which she had tried to resell, but which had not allowed her to obtain the required sum. .
The crook, to whom she had informed of her intention to part with her jewelry, had offered to try to resell them himself to, he claimed, “knowledge», in return for the sum of 20,000 dirhams that he had demanded.
More than a month later, after having definitively lost contact with this man who had literally cheated her, this woman went to the relative who had introduced him to her.
Together, they managed to locate the home of this crook, where they went. At the scene, after speaking with members of her family, they quickly understood that she had fallen into the trap of a scammer.
By Fayza Senhaji
06/16/2024 at 7:18 p.m.
