#professional secrets

A Moroccan civil servant who leaked documents to the press showing that senior officials had awarded each other large monthly bonuses received a two month suspended sentence Friday for "divulging professional secrets." The verdict handed down by a court in Rabat comes more than two years after Morocco's ruling Islamist party came to power promising to roll back the endemic problem of corruption in the kingdom. Abdelmajid Louiz and his friend Mohamed Reda, who both worked at the finance ministry, were charged in July 2012 after leaking two documents to the press. The administrative documents indicated that ex-finance minister Salaheddine Mezouar and the head of the treasury, Noureddine Bensouda, had awarded each other monthly bonuses of more than 7,000 euros ($9,050). Source: AFP