"Heavy charges" .. Algeria's judiciary decides the future of Bouteflika's brother and his companions

New and exciting developments in the case of the corruption of the brother of the resigned Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and two businessmen, revealed and resolved by the judiciary.

At a time when local media sources suggested "the issuance of the ruling on acquittal", against Al -Saeed Bouteflika, brother and advisor of the former Algerian president, the judiciary decided the future of the man, after he announced the "refusal of the appeal" in the cases"Corruption and forgery".

The Supreme Court (the highest judicial body in Algeria) officially decided to refer the files of Al -Saeed Bouteflika and Al -Tayyib, and to Haddad to the Criminal Court of the Capital Judicial Council, after refusing the appeal submitted by their defense bodies to "re -adapt the facts from a felony to misdemeanor," provided that it is doneSerial programming from next September.

The Supreme Court in Algeria approved the existence of "compelling corruption evidence" against the three defendants, and they will face heavy charges related to "a felony of exploitation of the job, not to hinder the course of justice, incitement to bias, and the felony of incitement to forgery in official editing", which is the charges that the jurists sayIts punishment "exceeds 10 years in effect".

In the case of the former Minister of Justice, Al -Tayyib Louh, 15 accused, including former judges and weights, are also following up, while judicial calls were submitted to 36 witnesses, including former Prime Minister Noureddine Badawi and Sabba Al -Aqabi, Secretary -General of the Algerian Presidency during the era of Bouteflika.

In the same context, the name of the former Algerian Energy Minister, Shakib Khalil, returned to the front of the events in the same issue;As the former head of the Algerian Judicial Council and the two general representatives of the capital and Boumerdes councils follow charges related to "abuse of job and incitement to prejudice".

It is expected that the Algerian judiciary will reopen the file of Shakib Khalil and his wife, Najat Arafat and his two sons, in cases related to "the exploitation of the job", and he is the former minister who was issued against the international arrest in 2016.

Last January, an Algerian court sentenced Al -Saeed Bouteflika, the brother and advisor of the former president, and former heads of the intelligence service, Lieutenant General Mohamed Median and General Bashir Tara'at, from the charge of "conspiracy", and canceled a former judicial ruling of 15 years in prison.

Immediately after that Al -Saeed Bouteflika was transferred to Al -Harrash Civil Prison in the center of the Algerian capital, to follow up on corruption cases, mainly related to the former Minister of Justice, the Tayeb Louh, and the businessman Ali Haddad.

Al -Saeed Bouteflika, or who was described as "the actual ruler of Algeria behind the curtain", is waiting for other corruption cases before the Algerian judiciary linked to "money laundering" as well as "hidden funding" for the campaign of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika presidentPolitical and smuggling of public money ".