Algeria: Saïd Bouteflika, brother of the former president, sentenced to eight years in prison

Published on: 06/06/2022 – 14:54 In Algeria, Saïd Bouteflika, younger brother of the late former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, received eight years in prison on Monday in a corruption case, according to the media. Already in detention, he was sentenced in October to two years in prison for “obstructing justice”. A new conviction for the brother of the late Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. Said Bouteflika, who is already serving a sentence in another case, was sentenced Monday, June 6, to eight years in prison for corruption, according to the media. His co-defendant, 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 Public Treasury. 57, who appeared before the Sidi M’hamed court in Algiers for “influence peddling”, “abuse of office”, “money laundering” and “non-declaration of assets”. In October, Saïd Bouteflika and Ali Haddad had each been 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’ imprisonment. his firm and at the end of March 2020, he was sentenced in another appeal trial to four years in prison. Former leader of the main Algerian employers’ organization, the Forum des chefs d’entreprises (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 illegal 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