The regional brigade of the judicial police of Fez, in coordination with the services of the General Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DGST), arrested, on Tuesday and Wednesday, 30 individuals, including 18 security agents, a doctor, two nurses, health professionals as well as intermediaries, for their alleged involvement in acts of blackmail, threats, manipulation to benefit from public health services and trafficking of newborns, a security source indicated.
At this stage of the investigation, the results revealed that among the individuals arrested were individuals suspected of being intermediaries in the sale of newborns in collaboration with single mothers and in return for money, in favor of families. wishing to adopt abandoned children, adds the same source, specifying that the other suspects are presumed involved in acts of blackmail to patients and their families in exchange for appointments for consultation, diagnosis or visits, intermediation in the practicing abortions illegally, and issuing medical certificates containing false data.
Also, investigative procedures have demonstrated that certain individuals arrested are involved in acts of usurpation of a function governed by law, manipulation of medical consultation appointments, theft, and waste of medical supplies and pharmaceutical drugs. as well as their sale, we emphasize.
Searches carried out at the homes of some of the arrested security agents found in their possession prescription drugs, drugs that cannot be sold, medical equipment, and sums of money.
All of the defendants were placed in police custody at the disposal of the judicial investigation, carried out under the supervision of the competent public prosecutor’s office, to determine all of the criminal acts accused of the defendants and identify the possible ramifications of these criminal activities in addition to the arrest of other people involved in this criminal activity, we conclude.
