Casablanca Court of Appeal criminal chamber sentences former minister and longtime Fkih Ben Salah mayor Mohamed Moubdii to 13 years for embezzlement and corruption; his lawyers say they will appeal.

On 21 May 2026 the financial-crimes criminal chamber of the Casablanca Court of Appeal sentenced Mohamed Moubdii, a former minister and longtime president of the Fkih Ben Salah commune, to 13 years in prison and ordered him to pay 30 million dirhams to the commune, a civil party, per Le Desk. Reports say he was convicted of embezzlement of public funds, corruption, forgery of official documents and abuse of authority, after a complaint by the Casablanca-Settat branch of the Moroccan Association for the Protection of Public Assets.