In 2004 I took over the management of Afric Pneus in Marrakech at the Bd Houmane El Fetouaki; a company in which my late father decided to participate as a shareholder against my advice.
In the first years the company was run by Ahmed who was also a shareholder, who enriched himself (as he later admitted) by using the company as his own personal piggy bank. The management was then taken over by the other shareholder Jdili El Mahjoub, who did not have the intelligence of his predecessor but who was solely interested in self-enrichment.
He was therefore advised by an internal accountant Abdelillah, who showed him all possible reprehensible and illegal ways to unpack the company and together they had the time of their lives.
Before I took over control, I turned to Ahmed and pointed out his actions and how to come to terms with them. He expressed his sincere regret and hoped that my father could one day forgive him, we agreed on a price for his share in the building and for his shares in the company.
After this amount was paid, I also offered Jdili El Mahjoub a way out because the evidence I had collected against him left no room for any doubt; he refused, saying that I was wrong to think that something had changed in Morocco.
The man who, when I asked him why there was no photo of Mohammed VI hanging in the garage besides the ancient photo of Hassan II, replied “if he were a man, I would have hung his photo” was firmly convinced that he could get out of any charge through bribery.
You can read in the following articles that he turned out to be right.
