Algerian billionaire Algerians, some close to former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, appeared before the court yesterday to face charges from the state prosecutor after being arrested as part of an investigation into corruption cases, Ahmed Ouyahia a formal recall memo, while the majority of political parties in Algeria boycotted a consultation session called for by the transitional president, Abdul Qadir bin Saleh, to establish a presidential election organization scheduled for the fourth of July.
Al-Nahar television confirmed that five Algerian billionaires had been brought before the courts and that the five were pleased to see Rabab, Algeria's richest businessman, and four brothers from the Koninav family, believed to have a close relationship with former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Earlier, local sources said the national gendarmerie had stopped Rabrab, the seventh richest man in Africa, before being released after hearing him.
For his part, Rrabab lied about the arrest, saying that "it is related to follow up one of the procedural issues of his companies."
Algerian press sources also reported that the national gendarmerie had also arrested the Koninav brothers, businessmen close to the former Algerian president.
The Coninav family is one of the wealthiest families in Algeria, has been active in business since the 1970s and has been able to raise considerable wealth.
The influence of the Koninav family grew in the era of Bouteflika because of the friendly relationship between them, which dates back to the 1980s, when Bouteflika lived in the diaspora and stood beside him this family.
Judicial sources said other orders had barred a number of businessmen from leaving Algeria.
In another development, the national gendarmerie handed over former Prime Minister Ouyahia and current Finance Minister Mohammed Lukal to direct summonses to attend the Sidi Mohamed court in the capital, having been absent from yesterday's session.
On the other hand, the majority of the political parties in Algeria boycotted a consultation session called by Ben Saleh for the establishment of the Presidential Elections Organization, where Ben Saleh did not attend the opening session as planned, and only sent the Secretary-General of the Presidency,
"The consultation will continue with political actors and constitutional law experts not for just one day. This is the will of the state. "
The demonstrators refused to organize the elections on the date set by the head of state and demanded the departure of all symbols of the "regime", led by Ben Saleh himself and Prime Minister Noureddine Badawi.
For al-Aqabi, the elections will take place on the "date declared by the head of state, which is imposed by the constitution," which sets the date for organizing the elections 90 days from the date of the transitional president taking power after Bouteflika resigned on April 2 under pressure from the street and the army.
All the opposition parties and the majority of the parties of the former presidential alliance, as well as the independent figures headed by the state, boycotted the invitation.
Three parties, the National Republican Alliance, the National Reform Movement and a representative of the National Liberation Front (FLN), who supported Bouteflika's candidature for a fifth term, also attended the Front of the Future, whose representative left immediately after the organizers asked to leave the press for the work in closed session.
The representative of the Front for the Future, Abdullah Wafi, protested the removal of journalists from the courtroom, saying that "consultations are held away from the eyes of the Algerian people."
The Presidency of the State called on all parties, trade unions, civil society organizations and experts in the constitutional law to meet with the consultation «will deal mainly with the general form and functions of the body that will be charged with preparing the organization of elections», according to a document distributed by the Presidency of the State to journalists.
According to the document, the new body can carry out all tasks assigned to the public administration, especially the Ministry of the Interior «from reviewing the electoral lists and monitoring the circumstances in which the election campaign, and until the provisional announcement of the election results».
Among the opposition's demands was to keep the government's administration from participating in the elections as a "fraud machine".
Parisian march expels former Algerian minister
Former Algerian Minister Aboujara Sultani was subjected to humiliating expulsion when he tried to participate with Algerian demonstrators in the French capital Paris in a march against "symbols of the regime."
According to a video posted on the Algerian daily Al-Nahar, Abuja, former head of the Movement for a Peace Society, wanted the Algerians to take part in the demonstration they organized in Paris to demand the departure of the remaining regime symbols.
However, the former official, who served as minister of state without portfolio during the reign of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, faced an embarrassing situation when he was surrounded by the Algerian community living in France and demanded that he leave immediately, as one of the "symbols of the regime." Paris - Agencies