Corruption: local elected officials caught red-handed

Abdelouafi Laftit, Minister of the Interior, is trying to put an end to corruption and the squandering of public funds. In his sights, some thirty municipal presidents and elected officials whose files he has transferred to the kingdom’s judicial agent.

Abdelouafi Laftit is determined to make life difficult for elected municipal officials. He has referred the cases of 30 municipal presidents and senior elected officials suspected of various violations to the kingdom’s judicial officer and has “threatened to pursue the perpetrators of squandering public money among the council presidents, who have hastily begun planning to benefit from the “rent” and corruption in elected assemblies,” reports Assaba. Informed of the actions of certain regional and elected assembly presidents in several cities, the minister “swore that he will spare no one,” sources report. In this sense, he intends to boost the role of the General Inspectorate of Territorial Administration after the appointment of an inspector general, within the framework of the designations planned in the ranks of the senior officials of the ministry, so that the courts responsible for financial crimes continue the judgment of dishonest municipal presidents, some of whom will be judged retroactively.