Morocco's financial oversight body has uncovered evidence of widespread manipulation in public procurement across 17 institutions, where contractors submitted unjustifiably low bids that led to serious implementation problems and derailed priority government projects, according to reporting from Hespress.

Informed sources told Hespress that reports received from the "Internal Affairs" departments in the prefectures and provinces of the Casablanca-Settat, Rabat-Salé-Kenitra, Marrakech-Safi, and Beni Mellal-Khenifra regions ignited a "grant war" within municipal councils during the May sessions. These reports prompted the central departments of the Ministry of the Interior to take action after revealing escalating tensions between elected officials regarding the distribution of subsidies and partnership agreements with associations, in light of [The post "Grant Rent" Questions the Transparency of Public Funds Management in Territorial Councils appeared first on Hespress - Hespress, a Moroccan electronic newspaper.