National Police (DGSN) in collaboration with Morocco’s Territory Surveillance Services (DGST) arrested ten individuals on Tuesday ranging in age from 21 to 47, for their alleged involvement in a criminal network engaged in systematically cheating and manipulating the computerized theory driving tests that drivers must pass to get their licenses, according to security sources.
Thorough investigations in the city of Oujda in the northeast resulted in several co-conspirators being “caught red-handed, cheating and facilitating the cheating process,” according to the source. The ten people detained include driving instructors, a test taker, three employees working at exam centers, and four intermediaries. Two of them have a criminal record.
The alleged criminal network provided the test taker with a discreet earpiece and special clothing fitted with cameras on mobile phones. With this setup, the applicant could receive the correct answers in real time while taking the driver’s knowledge test. The applicant presumably would have to pay the co-conspirators a bribe to take advantage of the scheme.
During the searches, law enforcement officers confiscated items supposedly related to the alleged criminal activities, including mobile phone-equipped shirts and earpieces, as well as three cars and 20 bales of cannabis resin, weighing around two kilograms in total, in the possession of an intermediary.
The ten suspects are now in custody pending further investigation under the supervision of the prosecutor’s office.