Cyprus authorities deny as “totally groundless” allegations about issuance of arrest warrants against Moroccan security officials

The authorities of Cyprus have denied as “totally groundless” the allegations circulated by some media about the issuance of arrest warrants against Moroccan security officials

The allegations circulated by some media and an official news agency of a Maghreb country claiming the issuance of arrest warrants against Moroccan security officials are “totally groundless”, Cypriot Foreign Ministry spokesperson Theodoros Gotsis said on Friday.

“The competent authorities of Cyprus, meaning both the legal service and the police, confim that these claims are totally groundless,” Gotsis told MAP.

“These are fake news; no criminal case and no arrest warrant have been issued against the individuals referred to by those media outlets,” he added.

In a dispatch titled “High-ranking Moroccan security officials are the subject to international arrest warrant,” published on January 16, 2024, the Algerian official news APS relied on false information disseminated by a Moroccan national who had been convicted by Italian justice for fraud.

In a statement to MAP, a diplomatic source in Rabat also categorically denied as false and factually incorrect the content of the dispatch of APS, which intentionally aligns with an editorial line that undermines the image of Morocco.