Currency traffic in Morocco: the alert foreign exchange office

The authorized foreign exchange points and counters located at Mohammed V International Airports in Casablanca and Marrakech-Menara are in the viewfinder of the exchange services under the exchange office.

Based on specific information from reports received indicating that certain flows exceeded legal tourist allowances and came from illicit activities, including drug trafficking and other crimes, as well as data provided by its monitoring and monitoring cell , the Exchange Office launched an inspection campaign targeting the authorized manual exchange points and counters (manual change) located at Casablanca and Marrakech-Menara airports. This campaign aims to verify the conformity of these spaces to legal exchange regulations as well as to preventive measures linked to the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism. The control services under the exchange office seek to verify possible exchange operations infiltrating the black market and on suspicious activities carried out by intermediaries in the environment of airports, but also to assess the scale Flows of currency diverted to the black market and to verify their possible exploitation in money laundering operations inside and outside Morocco.