A new conviction for the brother of the late Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika.
Saïd Bouteflika, who is already serving a sentence in another case, was sentenced on Monday June 6 to eight years in prison for corruption, according to the media.
His co-accused, the former boss of bosses Ali Haddad, also convicted in several cases, was sentenced to four years in prison.
The two defendants were also sentenced to pay fines to the Treasury.
The prosecution with a ten-year requirement closes against Saïd Bouteflika, 64, and Ali Haddad, 57, who appeared before the Sidi M'hamed court in Algiers for "influence peddling", "abuse of office", "money laundering of money" and "non-declaration of assets".
In October, Said Bouteflika and Ali Haddad were each sentenced to two years in prison for "obstructing justice".
The Bouteflika clan targeted by justice
Ali Haddad was sentenced in other corruption cases with a four-year prison sentence in January 2021. In November 2020, he was sentenced on appeal to twelve years in prison and at the end of March 2020, he was sentenced in another trial on appeal to four years in prison.
Former leader of the main Algerian employers' organization, the Forum of Business Leaders (FCE), from 2014 to March 2019, Ali Haddad was arrested at a border post with Tunisia in possession of two passports and sentenced in June 2019 to six months in prison for unlawful possession of the two travel documents.
The two men are also being prosecuted in other cases.
After Bouteflika's fall on April 2, 2019 under pressure from the Hirak protest movement and the army, the justice system launched a series of investigations into cases involving members of his entourage.
With AFP
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