Morocco: trial of the banker who took off with clients’ money

The court of first instance of Fez on Thursday sentenced to five years in prison and a fine an agent of a bank agency, in detention for six months for having embezzled more than 8 million dirhams from the bank.

The accused, a young man aged around 30, was employed in a bank branch. Arrested six months ago for embezzlement and placed in detention in Bourkaiz prison, he was sentenced Thursday to 5 years in prison and to pay 8,421,000 dirhams to the bank which employed him.