Morocco faces impossible recovery of fines

Fouzi Lekjaa, the Minister Delegate for the Budget, said on Friday that the amount of fines for drug trafficking and other offences, awaiting recovery by the customs administration, is estimated at 800 billion dirhams.

In response to criticism from opposition groups during the debate on the settlement bill for the execution of the 2022 budget at the Financial Control Committee of the House of Representatives, Lekjaa acknowledged the difficulty for the state to recover these 800 billion dirhams representing fines to be paid to the customs administration by criminals convicted by the courts for drug trafficking.