Fraudsters and forgers in the same basket

The sanitation campaign led by the various components of the Casablanca police prefecture continues to bear fruit. As part of the fight against organised crime, several interventions were carried out, leading to the arrest of several criminals last week. In the Aïn Sebaâ-Hay Mohammadi district, investigations conducted by the judicial police made it possible to neutralise a Syrian national residing illegally in Morocco and four other people of Moroccan nationality, including two women.This operation follows numerous complaints filed by the owners of companies and shopping centres, victims of fraud through the issuance of bad cheques, handed over by the aforementioned individuals, who were also authors of falsification of official documents and other serious crimes, including kidnapping and sequestration.The main fraudster, a Syrian national who presented himself as Moroccan, targeted ca…