Saïd Bouteflika, younger brother of the late ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, already in detention for prosecution in other cases, was sentenced Monday, June 6 to eight years in prison for acts of corruption.
His co-accused, the former boss of bosses Ali Haddad, also convicted in several cases, was sentenced to 4 years in prison.
The two men must also pay fines to the Treasury.
The prosecution with required 10 years closes against Saïd Bouteflika, 64, and Ali Haddad, 57, who appeared before the Sidi M'hamed court in Algiers for "
trading in influence
", "
abuse of office
", "
money laundering ".
'money
' 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 "
obstruction of justice
".
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Ali Haddad was sentenced in other corruption cases with a 4-year prison sentence in January 2021. In November 2020, he was sentenced on appeal to 12 years in prison and at the end of March 2020 he was sentenced in a 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.
In Algeria, prison sentences are not cumulative.
It is the heaviest sentence that is carried out.
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.
