The Minister of the Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit, is intensifying the fight against corruption by transmitting to the Kingdom’s judicial prosecutor the files of 30 municipal presidents and senior elected officials suspected of various crimes. Fifteen allegedly corrupt mayors in different regions are also the subject of proceedings before specialized courts. However, Laftit promises relentless action, strengthening the role of the General Inspectorate of Territorial Administration to ensure justice.
The Minister of the Interior, Abdelouafi Laftit, transmitted to the Kingdom’s judicial prosecutor the files of 30 commune presidents and senior elected officials suspected of having committed various offenses. He also submitted to the courts specializing in financial crimes the names of 15 municipal presidents suspected of corruption in different regions of the country. Regarding the presidents of elected councils, according to the media, Minister Laftit brandished the threat of “ prosecute those responsible for the squandering of public money“. Indeed, these presidents have hastily drawn up plans to exploit ‘rents’ and corruption within elected councils.
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In addition, Laftit, who would have been informed of the behavior of certain heads of regions and elected councils in several cities, ” had promised that he would leave no one behind “. To this end, he intends to relaunch the role of the General Inspectorate of Territorial Administration (IGAT) after the appointment of an Inspector General, and this within the framework of the planned appointments of senior officials of the ministry. This is to ensure that the courts responsible for financial crimes retain the power to bring corrupt mayors to justice, including with retroactive effect for some of them.
In addition, it is expected that other officials and presidents of municipalities will be tried for squandering public funds, given that several elected officials have been sentenced to prison by the administrative courts of Rabat, Marrakech, Fez and Casablanca.
Interior Minister Abdelouafi Laftit could also take into account the statements of parliamentarians within the Interior Ministry and Local Authorities Committee by referring the cases of former and current presidents to justice for financial crimes.
Beyond the judgment of the municipal presidents, it was the directors of design offices and companies themselves who were arrested because of the monopolization of all the markets that they held with the complicity of influential figures within the General Directorate of Local Authorities.
