Corruption Scandal Erupts in Morocco’s Emergency Education Reform Program

The National Brigade of the Judicial Police (BNPJ) referred to the criminal chamber in charge of financial crimes at the Marrakech Court of Appeal part of the file relating to suspicions of corruption, which tainted the emergency program for the reform of national education. President of the Moroccan Association for the Protection of Public Property, lawyer Me Mohamed El Ghalloussi announced the dismissal, this Wednesday via his social networks, recalling that this major project had “cost around 44 billion dirhams (MMDH) , equivalent to an amount squandered in various forms through falsification and circumvention of the law”.

This dismissal also occurs following a complaint by the NGO to the Public Ministry, concerning a possible squandering of public funds. After the Court of Appeal of Fez, which has begun to try some of the officials accused in this case, it is now the turn of the Court of Appeal of Marrakech. In this sense, Me Mohamed El Ghalloussi affirmed that the king’s attorney general had “received a huge file”. The latter is currently being examined, pending “the taking of the necessary measures, which should overthrow several officials linked to the management of the sector”, argued the lawyer and association.