Former Raja Casablanca president Mohamed Boudrika was sentenced on Tuesday, July 1, by the Ain Sebaa Criminal Court to five years in prison without parole and fined 600,000 dirhams. The businessman faced charges including issuing bad checks, forgery and use of forged documents, breach of trust, fraud, and the illegal acquisition and use of administrative documents. A former president of the Mers Sultan district under the banner of the National Rally of Independents (RNI), Boudrika was also banned from issuing checks for one year. The first-instance ruling follows his arrest in July 2024 at Hamburg Airport (Germany), based on an international arrest warrant issued by Moroccan authorities. He was extradited to Morocco last April and placed in detention. In a separate case, Boudrika had previously been tried in absentia and sentenced to a one-year suspended prison term and fined 232,500 dirhams for issuing bad checks. Amid his ongoing legal troubles, the Constitutional Court stripped Boudrika of his parliamentary seat in January. He was also removed from his post as president of the Mers Sultan district.
