Former Moroccan Intelligence agent Mossadak Maimoun: “Rabah Kebir wanted to swear allegiance to the King and to recognize the 'Moroccanity' of Western Sahara”
More on the exclusive interview granted to “Echorouk” by former Moroccan diplomat and intelligence agent Mossadek Maimoun who made startling revelations about numerous shady affairs involving corrupt bigwigs in the spheres of power in Morocco.
- You have evoked in a message to the intelligence services the former FIS party leaders namely Rabah Kebir and Moussa Kraouche.
- I received sensitive information from a Moroccan Chari’a teacher who was in close contact with Algerians including Moussa Kraouche who was married to a Moroccan woman from the city of Oudjda.
- I kept a watchful eye, as part of my mission, on Moussa Kraouche and his friend Djaafar Houari who both created an Algerian-French brotherhood association called (FAF) in the Paris suburbs.
- Djaafar Houari was also the co-founder of an association called “Ahl El Beit”.
- Djaafar Houari was the link between Rabah Kebir and Iran notably with an influential Iranian Imam or religious preacher named Mohamed Bakr Al Ansari who was officiating in the biggest Chiite mosque of Hamburg in Germany.
- The latter was the personal representative overseas of the guide of the Iranian revolution Ali Khamenei.
- I received reliable information that Rabah Kebir, who was a FIS party leader abroad, wanted to come to Morocco together with several of his companions in March 1993 in order to swear allegiance to the Moroccan King Hassen II and to recognize the “Moroccanity” of Western Sahara.
- I also knew that Rabah Kebir and his henchmen were receiving a great deal of money from Iran through a Turkish Islamic center based in Cologne, Germany.
- I then conveyed this sensitive information to the Moroccan security authorities who barred them access to Morocco as a result.
- You have revealed in your reports to the Moroccan intelligence services the burning file dealing with money laundering and money embezzlement involving several senior Moroccan officials.
- I got in touch with the DST chief Allabouche and asked for a cover to carry out my investigative mission.
- Once I got the green-light from the higher authorities, I led an inquiry with the help of French experts. This allowed me to draw up a black list of Moroccan ministers, senior Army officers and diplomats who had embezzled billions of dollars by sending them to France in particular.
- I sent a message number 593/93 to the relevant administration containing the findings of my inquiry but unfortunately the blaming report was hushed up after behind-the-scenes leverage from some powerful figures in Morocco itself.
- At the same time, I uncovered another affair linked to arms’ smuggling towards Morocco by a Moroccan shadowy network but the SDT chief ordered me not to speak about it to anyone. He also discarded the list of those people involved in money embezzlement and money laundering.
- Have you been victimized on account of this burning file?
- Absolutely, I have been threatened and ostracized and my life and that of my family are in jeopardy just for having served the interests of my country Morocco.
- What did you do once securing a haven in France?
- I got in contact with the Moroccan Embassy and expounded my case but I received only hollow promises.
- In 2000, I wrote to King Mohamed VI to whom I sent a file weighing 1.8 kg through one of his close guard officers but this file has never been conveyed to the King himself, because a nefarious clan in Morocco decided otherwise and diverted the document to ward off any legal proceedings against the culprits.
- What are now your future plans?
- I am demanding the recovery of my rights. I have decided to speak out. I handed over all my documents to a seasoned journalist in order to publish a book which will lay bare all the heinous activities of corrupt mafia-like figures in Morocco. I also hired a world-renowned lawyer to whom I gave all the details of the shady affairs I had uncovered. This book will come out in the very near future.
- I can assure you that this book will be tantamount to a bomb-shell which will jolt many nefarious bigwigs in the spheres of power in Morocco.