The Government Council adopted the new draft decree 2.21.670, defining the courts’ districts specializing in money laundering crimes.
Four regional brigades of the Judicial Police have been set up for this purpose, located in Rabat, Fez, Casablanca, and Marrakech.
The adoption of this new decree comes within the framework of the implementation of the provisions of article 38 of law 12.18, aiming to fight more effectively against money laundering and the financing of terrorism in order to comply with international standards.
During the presentation of the draft decree to the Council of Government, the Minister of Justice, Mohamed Ben Abdelkader, recalled the important issues underlying the adoption of this implementing text, saying “Concretely, this new decree comes as a result of the various reports drawn up by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which is an international body for the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism that sets out good practices in this area.”
A total of 390 cases have been recorded for the years 2019 and 2020 in terms of suspicious transaction reports relating to money laundering and terrorist financing, according to MAP.
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