Settat: a lawyer and a businessman imprisoned in a real estate theft case

The investigating judge at the Court of Appeal of Settat placed in preventive detention yesterday, Tuesday November 5, 2024, a famous lawyer from this city, a businessman residing abroad, a former head of department of the legalization of signatures, and an employee, while the director of a company was prosecuted while on provisional release.

The five defendants are being prosecuted for “falsification of official and customary documents» as well as for the “dispossession of other people’s real estate», relays Assaba this Thursday, November 7.

Furthermore, a notary, who was banned from traveling, was subject to a border closure procedure, by judicial order.

The accused declared during his hearing by the King’s Attorney General that the official contracts which included his personal ink stamp were falsified, and that it is therefore probable that the co-accused had affixed, without his knowledge, his own seal on these documents.

After being questioned by elements of the National Brigade of the Judicial Police (BNPJ), the suspects were presented before the King’s Attorney General, who interviewed them, before referring them, in turn, before the judge. investigation, which ordered their placement in pre-trial detention in a cell in the local prison.

The facts date back to 2017, when traders from Kissariat “Ozone» in Settat filed a complaint against the “brain» of this network, in this case this businessman, accusing him, as well as his associates, of having despoiled two real estate properties of the Muslim Charitable Association.

These goods belonged to a French national, who died in 1967 in Casablanca.

The main accused falsified, with the help of a foreign notary and genealogist, wills and powers of attorney relating to real estate belonging to foreigners in several towns, including Settat.

The businessman subsequently transferred these assets to his associates, falsifying official and customary contracts, explains Assaba.

The lawyer in preventive detention then took over to file complaints, asserting these false contracts in order to evict the occupants of the premises subject to this dispute.

This is what happened to the Kissaria traders, who were subject to an eviction order from the shop they rented, which had become the property of the Muslim Charitable Association.

On Hassan Benadad

06/11/2024 at 6:59 p.m.