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The deliberations have started on Monday. Our sources say the charges have been confirmed concerning a number of principal defendants among whom former top executives of Khalifa group, who have been in detention pending trial for 16 months. Senior executives of a number of State-owned companies and other bodies have been accused, as part of this affair, of misappropriation of public funds, whereas the main accused in this affair, as the chairman and Chief-executive officer of Khalifa group, Abdelmoumen Khalifa, and a number of management executives are charged with corruption, masquerade, document forgery criminal conspiracy, grand larceny, among others. Our sources affirmed that the trial will begin on July 17. Investigation file sent to the accusation chamber of the court of Blida, after three year of investigation into the case, includes more than 1000 pieces of evidences, revealed the involvement of national key personalities from different public bodies in the affair, as part of which hundreds of millions of dinars were transferred abroad with the complicity of some Khalifa Banks’ executives. As far as the public treasury is concerned, it has lost over 220 billion dollars. Mourad M’hamed — El-Khabar | ||||||||||||||||||
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Khalifa case, The trial begins on July 17