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The President advisor is charged with sealing unlawful deals, theft, fraud and acquisition of a firearm. According to the referral decision of the office of clerk of the court, investigations minute elaborated by the judiciary police mentions breach of national security, corruption, abuse of authority, and tax evasion were at the crux of inquiries about four people have concluded transactions with an Austrian company, in order to snatch the rehabilitation of a cleaning network of nauseating waters in Baraki, west of Algiers. the investigation came up to the conclusion that there is a criminal network led by Kouaïche Kaddour who had relations with the Austrian company general manager and was intervening in ministerial departments and national companies to accomplish the criminal network’s objectives. The striking is that in spite of the fact that the charges come under criminality, the case was considered by a magistrate’s court, thus indictments have been summed up in the conclusion of unlawful transaction for all the accused and fraud attempts for the president’s advisor, fraud for interest group masterminds, as well as the acquisition of a non deserved privilege for the secretary of hydraulic resources minister. Lawyers have concluded unanimously that the case witnessed a flagrant violation to legal procedures and confusion which raise many questions about “justice in the country”. At around 2:30 a.m., the judge pronounced the verdict: 4 year-prison sentence three of them suspended against President Bouteflika’s advisor. The interest group masterminds namely A. Abdelkader, I. Omar, A. Mohamed Tayeb, and K. Hadj Aissa, 18 months suspended prison sentence and 10 000 dinars fine, as well as one year-sentence with no remission in absentia against hydraulic resources ministry secretary general with a 10 000 dinars fine. | ||||||||||||||||||
4 year-prison sentence against President Bouteflika’s advisor