Source : Map
11/05/2022 11:00
The Court of Algiers sentenced, on Wednesday, the former Algerian Minister of Justice, Tayeb Louh, to two years in prison for “abuse of office, influence peddling and obstruction of the proper functioning of justice”.
The businessman Tarek-Noah Kouninef was sentenced to the same sentence, while the former inspector general of the Ministry of Justice, Tayeb Benhachem received an 18-month prison sentence with reprieve.
The Attorney General at the Court of Algiers had requested last week a 10-year prison sentence once morest the three defendants, with confiscation of all property and bank accounts seized in the context of this case.
Last October, the former Algerian Minister of Justice, Tayeb Louh was sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment by the criminal court of “Dar el Beida” in Algiers for “inciting the falsification of official documents”.
The vast investigations into corruption and nepotism launched following the resignation in April 2019 of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, under pressure from an unprecedented popular protest movement “Hirak”, led to a series of trials that are still ongoing.
Several personalities and former political leaders, as well as powerful bosses, senior civil servants and senior army officers are tried in the context of these trials. They are prosecuted, in particular, for corruption and illicit enrichment.