The trial of ex-PS Minister Kader Arif for suspicion of favoritism, which was to open Wednesday January 12 before the Court of Justice of the Republic (CJR), was postponed to October, a senator to sit there being retained in the Senate and its positive substitute for Covid-19.
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The former Minister Delegate and then Secretary of State PS for Veterans, who had resigned in November 2014, is accused of having concluded without competition, in March 2014, a "
media-training
" contract between the Ministry of Defense and a company run by members of his family, whose names did not appear.