On September 10, 300 people were arrested in the flagrante delicto of forgery and use of forgery as part of operations to fight against the falsification of health documents, started since the declaration of the state of a health emergency.
The operations carried out by the DGSN focused on the fight against false PCR tests, false vaccine passes, and the trafficking of rapid test kits for Covid-19.
In total, 144 files were processed during border post controls (air and sea posts) during transit operations to and from Morocco, leading to the arrest of 300 people.
Among them, eleven were arrested for marketing contraband pharmaceutical products (mainly screening tests).
Regarding the distribution of cases by city, it should be noted that the city of Agadir comes first with 68 cases, followed by Oujda (34 cases), Marrakech (12), Casablanca (10), and a business in each of the cities of Rabat, Kénitra, Tangier, Tetouan, Al Hoceima, Fez, Béni Mellal, Ouarzazate and Laâyoune.
For its part, the public prosecutor had sent a circular on August 27 to the public prosecutors and the King’s prosecutors on this subject. Thus, the Presidency of the Public Prosecutor’s Office encourages the judicial authorities to take vigorous action against the fraud of health documents, given the frequent use of these practices. The judicial police must use all appropriate means to detect cases of fraud, to open investigations accordingly, and to be firm against those presumed to be involved in these cases.
