RABAT (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime’s foreign ministry has recalled its envoy in Morocco amid a probe into sexual and financial misconduct at the occupying regime’s mission in Rabat.
David Govrin, the head of the regime’s mission in Rabat, was summoned on Tuesday following complaints made by former employees whom Govrin had fired in separate incidents, according to a report by Israel’s Ynet news site.
The decision to recall Govrin, who had only returned to Morocco on Monday having been in the occupied territories to answer questions about the allegations, was made by Alon Ushpiz, the regime’s foreign ministry’s director general.
At the heart of the probe is an allegation that a senior official at the Zionist mission in Rabat had sexually exploited women from the local community.
Despite growing public discontent, relations between Morocco and the Zionist regime have been growing since the two signed a U.S.-sponsored deal to normalize their ties in late 2020.
The occupying regime opened a diplomatic mission in August 2021 and the two sides signed a deal last month to build a permanent embassy of the occupying regime in Morocco.
Zionist regime media reported that officials fear the allegations could lead to a diplomatic crisis with Morocco.
An official at the regime’s foreign ministry described a public feeling of chaos at the ministry and that “everyone is at each other’s throats”, according to Ynet.
The ministry is also probing sexual harassment complaints within the mission in Rabat, and financial and administrative misconduct.
Israel’s Haaretz newspaper said Govrin was suspected of failing to report an expensive gift he received from the Moroccan royal family.
The gift has vanished with no record, though it should have been registered and given back to the regime.
The investigation also involves a rivalry between Govrin and the mission’s security officer, along with claims Govrin allowed Samy Cohen, a local community leader and a friend of Govrin, to host Zionist ministers, including Yair Lapid, Ayelet Shaked and Gideon Saar, on visits to Morocco despite not being a diplomat.