The crooks’ modus operandi is almost the same. They set their sights on special people and offer them their “services” in return for money. Promises they obviously don’t keep. One of them was recently tried by the correctional chamber of the Casablanca court of first instance.
This is not the first time that the forty-one-year-old father of a family has appeared before the magistrate of the Correctional Chamber of the Court of First Instance of the economic capital, charged with the same offence, namely fraud. This is the third time. On the first occasion, fifteen years ago, he was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment, then released after one year following a royal pardon. The second time was in 2020, when he was sentenced to one year in prison and then a third sentence of eighteen months. In other words, he has become a professional swindler, constantly on the lookout for easy money. The magistrate asks him if he never thinks about his two children, who are growing up far from his sight because he’s in prison all the time.
“But I’ve repented, Mr. Chairman. I don’t know why these people are accusing me when I’ve never seen or met them,” he declared in court, saying he regretted having committed such acts in the past.
“I’ve paid dearly for my mistakes, Judge. But these people, I have nothing to do with them. I don’t know them,” he confirmed.
Is he telling the truth? It’s hard to believe, since the eight victims who came to confront him in court recognized him perfectly.
One of the victims, a young mother, told the court that the suspect had promised her, in exchange for 15,000 dirhams, to recruit her son, who had just graduated from a public school. In return for this promise, he pocketed a sum of fifteen thousand dirhams. She wasn’t the only one to whom he promised wonders. A young man who appeared before the magistrate was also fleeced by this notorious swindler in return for a promise to help him get to El Dorado. A third man told the court that he had borrowed the sum of fifteen thousand dirhams to help his imprisoned son benefit from extenuating circumstances for his involvement in a robbery case. Indeed, each of the victims revealed to the judge the sum they had paid to this swindler, ranging from fifteen to thirty thousand dirhams, against promises that evaporated. He was eventually arrested at his home and brought to trial.
Verdict: found guilty, he was sentenced to three years in prison.
This is not the first time that the forty-one-year-old father of a family has appeared before the magistrate of the Correctional Chamber of the Court of First Instance of the economic capital, charged with the same offence, namely fraud. This is the third time. On the first occasion, fifteen years ago, he was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment, then released after one year following a royal pardon. The second time was in 2020, when he was sentenced to one year in prison and then a third sentence of eighteen months. In other words, he has become a professional swindler, constantly on the lookout for easy money. The magistrate asks him if he never thinks about his two children, who are growing up far from his sight because he’s in prison all the time.
“But I’ve repented, Mr. Chairman. I don’t know why these people are accusing me when I’ve never seen or met them,” he declared in court, saying he regretted having committed such acts in the past.
“I’ve paid dearly for my mistakes, Judge. But these people, I have nothing to do with them. I don’t know them,” he confirmed.
Is he telling the truth? It’s hard to believe, since the eight victims who came to confront him in court recognized him perfectly.
One of the victims, a young mother, told the court that the suspect had promised her, in exchange for 15,000 dirhams, to recruit her son, who had just graduated from a public school. In return for this promise, he pocketed a sum of fifteen thousand dirhams. She wasn’t the only one to whom he promised wonders. A young man who appeared before the magistrate was also fleeced by this notorious swindler in return for a promise to help him get to El Dorado. A third man told the court that he had borrowed the sum of fifteen thousand dirhams to help his imprisoned son benefit from extenuating circumstances for his involvement in a robbery case. Indeed, each of the victims revealed to the judge the sum they had paid to this swindler, ranging from fifteen to thirty thousand dirhams, against promises that evaporated. He was eventually arrested at his home and brought to trial.
Verdict: found guilty, he was sentenced to three years in prison.
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