Morocco arrests Briton for forgery, use of forgery, theft of false identity

MARRAKECH – Morocco’s police arrested on Sunday a British national in Marrakech for his alleged involvement in a case of forgery and use of forgery and usurpation of a false identity to escape an international search warrant issued against him by the British justice system, according to a security source.

The arrest of the suspect, aged 32, comes as part of an exchange of information between the Moroccan security authorities and their British counterparts, since he was the subject of a red notice issued by Interpol at the request of the British judicial authorities in a criminal case linked to drug trafficking, money laundering and possession of a firearm.

The painstaking research and investigations carried out by the National Security services in the context of this case enabled the location and arrest of the man in Marrakech, added the same source, which revealed that he was using fake foreign identity documents and that he entered the national territory illegally.

The arrested foreign national was placed in police custody at the disposal of the judicial investigation ordered by the Marrakech prosecutor's office, with a view to his interrogation regarding the circumstances of his perpetration of the crime of forgery and use of forgery, in parallel with the application of the extradition procedure which is implemented in accordance with the legal provisions governing international cooperation procedures in the judicial field.