RABAT, March 17 — Moroccan authorities have charged eight suspected collaborators of French insurance tycoon Jacques Bouthier in a sexual abuse and trafficking case, lawyers for...
RABAT, March 17 — Moroccan authorities have charged eight suspected collaborators of French insurance tycoon Jacques Bouthier in a sexual abuse and trafficking case, lawyers for the complainants said Thursday.
Bouthier, 76 and one of France’s richest men, is being held in Paris on suspicion of child rape and trafficking. The case in Morocco opened in June 2022 when four former employees of a local subsidiary of Bouthier’s insurance group Assu2000, later renamed Vilavi, pressed charges against him. The eight suspects — six Moroccans including two women, and two Frenchmen — have been charged at a criminal court in the northern city of Tangiers with human trafficking, sexual harassment, “incitement to debauchery” and aiding a crime, said lawyer Nezha Khoubiza.
Four of them are currently in detention, added another lawyer for the complainants, Karima Salama, during a news conference in Rabat.The accusations include repeated sexual harassment and intimidation between 2018 and April 2022 in the Tangiers offices of Assu 2000, led at the time by Bouthier.
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