The “electronic bracelet” dragged a board and tires to the Ministry of Justice for investigation

The investigating judge listened to the Inspector General and the Director of Modernization at the Ministry of Justice on Monday

The investigating judge, the fifth chamber of the financial and economic pole at the Sidi Mhamed court, began hearing the defendants in the “electronic bracelet” case, on Monday, in which the former Minister of Justice, Tayeb Louh, the former Inspector General of the Ministry of Justice, Belhachem El-Tayeb, and the former director of systems and means Informatics at the Presidency of the Republic, Akka Abdel Hakim, in his capacity as Director of Modernization in the Ministry during Louh’s assumption of the sector, is the file that cost the state treasury $100 million, equivalent to 1,800 billion centimeters, to acquire about 1,000 broken, unusable electronic bracelets.

Yesterday morning, Oka Abdel Hakim, Director of Modernization at the Ministry of Justice, was brought from Kolea prison, and Salim Laadhouri, former Director General of Finance and Means at the Ministry of Justice, was brought from El-Harrach prison, to be heard by the investigating judge of the Fifth Chamber of Qutb. Financial and economic court Sidi M'hamed.

Investigations into what is known as the electronic bracelet file, which was supposed to be approved as an alternative punishment, cost the state treasury 100 million dollars, equivalent to 2000 billion centimeters, which entered into force in 2018, but after a while the judicial authorities refused to implement this system not because it was not available Conditions for benefiting from it, but rather because the device is not available at all with the departments concerned with the application of penalties. As for what is available, it is not usable.

According to the sources of “Al-Shorouk”, the preliminary investigations led to the fact that the Ministry of Justice, during the era of the imprisoned former minister, Al-Tayeb Louh, imported electronic bracelet devices from a European country, at a value of 1,000 euros per device, but it was later found that the device is of poor quality and does not conform to standards. , which cost the state treasury 100 million dollars, which is equivalent to 2000 billion centimeters.

It is known that the electronic bracelet, which the Algerian justice has applied to prisoners, aims to facilitate the monitoring process in two dimensions, as by virtue of its multiple characteristics, it can allow the bearer to press on it to alert the monitoring authorities in order to take care of it when force majeure comes, and it also aims to strengthen judicial control. And expanding its scope, to ensure respect for the accused, and reduce pressure on punitive institutions, in addition to allowing the accused to practice his normal life until his appearance before the court, as the applications of this bracelet allow accurately tracking the steps of the person being followed in a case, no matter where he is.

This device was also included at the time in order for defendants in cases subject to judicial investigation to benefit from an “electronic bracelet” by placing it on their ankles, whereby the judicial authorities can locate them remotely, until they appear before the court instead of placing them in temporary prison.