Morocco’s National Bureau for Combating Economic and Financial Crimes under the National Brigade of the Judicial Police (BNPJ) dismantled a criminal network active in the illegal exchange of bitcoins on January 18, according to the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST).
The judicial police arrested seven people, including a security officer working in the Police Headquarters of Casablanca and an internationally wanted individual, suspected of being associated with a criminal network involved in kidnapping and identity theft for extortion, as well as in the concealment of property from crime, said a statement from the Directorate General of National Security (DGSN).
The first elements of the investigation reveal that five suspects arrested in this case have lured a victim, active in the illegal exchange, after concluding with him a false agreement on the exchange of digital currencies of Bitcoin, before posing as police officers and arresting him in the vicinity of Casablanca to submit to blackmail.
The research and security interventions conducted led to the arrest of suspects in the act, reveals the DGSN, stating that the defendants have conducted a false search inside the home of the victim in Dar Bouazza in the province of Nouaceur on the outskirts of Casablanca, with the aim of seizing sums of money from allegedly illegal transfers.
The investigations conducted in this case, including at the home of the alleged victim, led to the seizure of a large sum of money of about 1 billion and 148 million Moroccan cents, cell phones, a motorcycle, and four cars, one of which contained two bladed weapons and gloves suspected of being used for criminal purposes.
The five suspects involved in these criminal acts, the brother of the police officer questioned, and his fiancée, as well as the alleged victim, have all been placed in custody, while the judicial police continue its investigation in this case under the supervision of the competent prosecutor.
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