The court of Sidi M’hamed… the representative of the republic seeks the maximum penalties against Said Bouteflika, Tahkout and Haddad – Al-Hiwar Algeria

Today, Wednesday, the representative of the republic at the economic and financial penal pole in Sidi M’hamed sought the maximum penalties against Said Bouteflika and the businessmen Tahkout Mohieddine and those with them, after following them up on charges related to money laundering by transferring property resulting from criminal proceeds to hide and disguise their illegal source.

The public prosecutor demanded the imposition of a penalty of 15 years in prison against Said Bouteflika and 18 years in prison against Mohieddine Tahkout and the former president of the Businessmen Forum, Ali Haddad.
The representative of the public right also demanded the imposition of a penalty of 15 years in prison against the Kouninef brothers, the same penalty for Ahmed Mazouz, and 12 years in prison for Muhammad Bairi, along with a fine of 8 million dinars for each of them.
The prosecution demanded the imposition of a 10-year sentence against Ibrahim, Nasser, Hamid, and Jawadi Mohamed Jalal, and a fine of 3 million dinars, in exchange for 10 years of imprisonment for the president, the general director of the National Agency of Highways, and 8 years for the president, the general manager of the Algerian National Bank, Abboud Achour, and a fine of one million dinars for each. Accused.

Late on Tuesday, happy Tuesday, the public treasury called on Bouteflika, the brother of the former president and his personal advisor, businessmen Mohieddin Tahkout, Ali Haddad and the Koninaf brothers, as well as Ahmed Mazouz and Mohamed Bairi and those with them, to compensate it with an amount of 500 thousand billion centimes, equivalent to 37 billion dollars.

A careful examination of the personal phone of the brother of the former president, in his capacity as an advisor to the Presidency of the Republic, revealed the truth about Al-Saeed Bouteflika, this hidden man who denied, throughout his trial sessions before the judiciary, that he did not interfere in the affairs of running the country and the people. The financial cartel” who preyed on all the livelihood of the Algerian people that reached their hands, and transferred tens of billions of dollars abroad or by directly acquiring them from banks in the form of loans and projects through illegal means with the blatant complicity of the economic management mafia.

Investigations carried out by the Algerian judiciary, by assigning the research platoon affiliated to the regional group of the gendarmerie in Algeria, on January 28, 2020, to check the schedule of phone calls that took place between Said Bouteflika and a number of businessmen, as it concluded that 4352 phone calls and text messages were made. ” between two sides.

In the details, Al-Saeed Bouteflika, the personal advisor to the former president, made 4352 phone calls with businessmen Ali Haddad, the “Koninef” brothers, Muhyiddin Tahkout, Tayyeb Zgimi Abdel-Qader, except that the Koninef brothers were the ones who recorded the most phone calls with Al-Said Bouteflika Koninaf Tariq made about 1238 phone calls, and Rida’s sister made “1140” calls, followed by Ali Haddad with 487 phone calls, then Tayyeb Zghimi Abdul Qadir “91” phone calls, and Muhyiddin Tahkout made 80 phone calls.

Investigations also showed through the schedules of phone calls that linked Said Bouteflika to these businessmen, that the dates of the last phone calls coincided with the period that followed the popular movement and the opening of investigations into corruption files in which businessmen were involved, which proved the existence of a suspicious relationship between them. As there is not a day in which a phone call between the two parties was not recorded, whether a call or a text message.

On the other hand, the inspection conducted by the investigating judge of the Third Chamber of the Economic and Financial Criminal Pole to the residence of Said Bouteflika, located at 138 Al-Bashir Al-Ibrahimi Street in the Al-Abyar municipality in Algiers, revealed administrative files, such as seizing a correspondence issued by the Director General of the National Agency for Dams and Transfers on 3 November 2012, addressed to the general manager of “TRAX ALGERIE” company owned by businessman Kouninef Tarek Nawa, in order to conclude a consensual deal for the completion of the Boukhrouqa Dam in El Tarf Province.

In the same residence, an edited table was also seized in the name of the ETRHB complex owned by businessman Ali Haddad, related to a project to study the maturity and completion of the new railway line linking Tlemcen and Colonel Abbas at a distance of 66 km, with a terrible amount estimated at about 119 billion dinars, and a list of people who submitted Financial contributions within the framework of the electoral campaign of the deceased President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, such as a bank check issued by the Foreign Bank of Algeria, issued by the “Hyundai Motor” company, where Mohieddine Tahkout contributed 20 million dinars, Ahmed Mazouz with 10 million dinars, and other reservations.

The appearance of Said Bouteflika, accompanied by businessmen and those with them, before the third branch of the economic and financial penal pole in Sidi M’hamed, Algiers, revealed serious facts and terrible corruption during the period of the “gangster mafia” regime that drained Algeria’s resources for more than two decades and will invalidate the attempts of the owners of the theory “We will not believe in you until we see God.” Jahra”, where the Chancellor at the Presidency of the Republic will follow up during the reign of his brother Abdelaziz Bouteflika on heavy charges related to money laundering by transferring property resulting from criminal proceeds to conceal and disguise their illegal source, abuse of position, concealment of legitimate funds resulting from the crime of corruption of the stipulated acts and punishable by Articles 389 bis, 389 bis 1 of the Penal Code, and Articles 33 and 43 of the Prevention and Combating Corruption Law.

Omar.B