فاس نيوز ميديا جريدة الكترونية جهوية تعنى بشؤون و أخبار جهة فاس مكناس – متجددة على مدار الساعة
The Criminal Chamber of the Court of Appeal in Rabat has recently ruled on a high-profile forgery case involving bribery, which led to the imprisonment of a local council president and three gendarmes. The court issued its appellate judgments, reducing the sentences by six months for three defendants compared to the initial prison terms they had received, while upholding the initial verdict for a fourth defendant, a gendarme.
According to reports detailing the case, the court convicted the four defendants (three gendarmes and a rural council president) who were tried in custody on charges of forgery in an official document and complicity. The sentences included two years in prison, with one year to be served and the remainder suspended, for a gendarme with the rank of assistant who served as a center chief, instead of the initial sentence of two years with 18 months to be served. Another gendarme, with the rank of senior sergeant, received the same prison sentence. For the third gendarme involved in the case, with the rank of sergeant, the court upheld the initial sentence of two years in prison, with one year to be served and the remainder suspended. As for the fourth defendant, the former president of a rural council in the Rmanya district of Khémisset province, the court sentenced him to two years in prison, with one year to be served and the remainder suspended, differing from the initial sentence of two years with 18 months to be served and the remainder suspended.
In October 2023, the National Judicial Police Brigade under the High Command of the Royal Gendarmerie referred nine individuals to the competent public prosecutor’s office at the Court of Appeal in Rabat. These included a former local council president in the Rmanya area, his son, three gendarmes, two employees, and two farmers, on charges of involvement in the forgery of an official document, its use, and complicity.
The King’s Prosecutor at the Court of Appeal in Rabat ordered the arrest of the council president and the three gendarmes, who were subsequently imprisoned on charges of forgery in an official document and its use. Meanwhile, the president’s son, two employees of an international agricultural research organization, and two farmers were released pending trial on charges of complicity.
The National Gendarmerie Brigade was brought into the investigation by order of the King’s Prosecutor in Rabat, conducting detailed inquiries into a complaint filed by the family of a victim regarding the forgery of a traffic accident report. The accident was allegedly caused by the son of a well-known political figure in the Rmanya area, affiliated with the Authenticity and Modernity Party (PAM), who served as the president of a rural council.
According to the case details, the National Gendarmerie Brigade referred nine defendants, who were released pending trial, to the competent public prosecutor’s office at the Court of Appeal in Rabat. These included the council president, his son, three gendarmes, and four other civilians (a technician, two employees, and two workers at an institute), who were found to have participated in the forgery scandal by providing false testimonies, according to preliminary investigations.
The investigation into the circumstances of a traffic accident that occurred on the outskirts of Rmanya, involving a vehicle with official council registration, uncovered a major scandal. It was revealed that the report prepared by the gendarmerie attributed the accident to the council president instead of his son, who was actually responsible for causing it.
The same details indicated that the president’s son caused the traffic accident while driving the council vehicle assigned to his father as part of his official duties. The president immediately went to the Royal Gendarmerie station after the accident to clear his son of charges and legal proceedings, claiming that he was the one driving the council vehicle at the time of the accident. He was accompanied by witnesses who corroborated his statements by testifying to the details of the accident. However, these testimonies were found to be “fictitious” based on investigations conducted by the National Gendarmerie Brigade, which confirmed the serious allegations of forgery in official documents against the president, his son, and the witnesses.
