The youngest brother of the deceased ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika is already detained for prosecution in other cases. In Algeria, prison sentences cannot be combined. It is the heaviest pain that prevails.
Le Monde with AFP
Saïd Bouteflika, younger brother of the late ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, already in detention for prosecution in other cases, was sentenced on Monday, June 6, to eight years in prison for corruption acts. His co -accused, the former boss of the Ali Haddad bosses, also sentenced in several cases, received four years in prison. The two men must also pay fines to the public treasury.
The prosecution had requested ten years firm against Mr. Bouteflika, 64, and Mr. Haddad, 57, who appeared before the court of Sidi M’hamed in Algiers for “influence traffic”, “abuse of function “,” money laundering “and” non-declaration of goods “.
At the end of May, Saïd Bouteflika was acquitted after being sentenced in October to two years in prison for “hindrance to justice”.
Ali Haddad had been sentenced in other corruption cases with a sanction of four years in prison in January 2021. In November 2020, Mr. Haddad had been sentenced on appeal to twelve years in prison and, In another appeal trial at the end of March 2020, at four years in prison.
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Ex-leader of the main Algerian employers’ organization, the Forum of Business Managers (FCE), from 2014 to March 2019, Mr. Haddad had been arrested at a border post with Tunisia in possession of two passports and sentenced in June 2019 to six months in prison for illegal detention of two travel documents.
The two men are also prosecuted in other cases. In Algeria, prison sentences cannot be combined. It is the heaviest sentence that prevails.
After the fall of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, on April 2, 2019, under pressure from the Hirak and army protest movement, justice launched a series of investigations involving members of those around him.
Furthermore, the prosecution requested a sentence of ten years in prison on Monday against the former CEO of the first Algerian private media group Ennahar, Anis Rahmani, prosecuted in a corruption case, According to the Ennaharonline site .
The same sentence was required against the businessman Mahieddine Tahkout pursued in this same case for money laundering.
his real no Mohamed Mokkadem, Anis Rahmani, close to Said Bouteflika, was already sentenced on appeal in March 2021 to three years in prison. He was accused of having illegally recorded and broadcast in October 2018 a telephone communication he had had with an intelligence colonel.