This is indicated in the 2024 activity report of the Ministry of the Interior, sent to the House of Representatives as part of the debates on the 2025 finance bill. Employees of the casino sector participated in workshops and forums, in person and by videoconference, organized by the ministry and international institutions dedicated to the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism, such as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the Financial Action for the Middle East and North Africa, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
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As part of the supervision of these gambling establishments and non-profit organizations, the Interior, in collaboration with the Ministry of the Economy, “contributed in 2023 to the development of the fifth report of the Kingdom of Morocco within the framework of the reinforced monitoring by the Financial Action Task Force for the Middle East and North Africa, which includes the recommendations for which a higher level of compliance is sought, and which was discussed and adopted during the 38th plenary meeting of this group, held in April 2024 in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
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The “GAFIMOAN” group unanimously adopted this report, welcoming the performance of Morocco which has “completed the adaptation of its national system for combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism to international standards in this area” , we note. The kingdom has also gained experience in the fight against terrorism thanks to a “proactive security approach aimed at countering all terrorist risks and threats from their origin, within a framework of permanent and continuous coordination, in full compliance with the principles of human rights and the rule of law,” the report said.
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Since 2002, Moroccan security services have contributed to the dismantling of more than 200 terrorist cells in the Sahel region, the Sahara and the Syrian and Iraqi zones, further informs the report which adds that 5 cells were dismantled in 2023, which led to the arrest of 17 individuals. Four other cells were put out of action at the end of last September, leading to the arrest of 16 people. Likewise, a terrorist network affiliated with Daesh and composed of four individuals aged 35 to 40 years old, was dismantled in the cities of Tangier, Casablanca, Béni Mellal and Inezgane.
