Moroccan Police arrest 300 people for forging Covid-19 documents

Moroccan Police arrest 300 people for forging Covid-19 documents
Sunday 12 September 2021 - 19:06

The security operations aimed at fighting forgery crimes of health documents arrested 41 people in 19 cases from September 04 to 10.

The 41 arrested were captured red-handed forging Covid-19 test results and vaccination passports, as well as smuggling and promoting rapid Covid-19 detection tests.

According to Hespress sources, 30 forged PCR test certificates were seized in these operations, as well as one forged vaccination passport and 11,522 units for rapid COVID-19 tests, some of which were seized during border controls, while the rest are pharmaceutical substances that were seized after the arrest of those involved in promoting them through e-commerce sites and social media.

Since the declaration of the state of emergency until September 10, security services were able to handle 144 cases, which led to the arrest of a total of 300 people in flagrante delicto of forging these documents or using them despite knowing that they were false, including 289 people for falsifying COVID-19 tests, vaccination passports and 11 other people for promoting smuggled pharmaceutical materials related to COVID-19 tests.

Agadir always remains at the forefront of these operations, having dealt with 68 cases, followed by Oujda (34 cases), Marrakech (12 cases), and the state of Casablanca (07 cases).

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