Today, Sunday, the Algerian Judicial Council upheld the rulings issued against the two former general managers of the Sonatrach group, Abdelmoumen Ould Kaddour (10 years in prison) and Mohamed Meziane (5 years in prison), as well as former Minister Noureddine Boutarfa (5 years in prison), who were executed Prosecute them on charges of corruption.
On the other hand, the former minister, Ammar Ghoul, benefited from a reduction in the sentence (from 10 to 5 years in prison) with the lifting of the seizure of his monthly salary and family residence. The former CEO of Sonatrach, Abdel Hamid Zarqin, who is following up on the same case, also benefited from a reduction in the sentence (from 3 years in force to two years in prison suspended).
The defendants were charged with squandering public funds, embezzlement, and concluding deals in violation of legal legislation.
The National Financial and Economic Penal Pole of the Sidi M’hamed Court had condemned, last January, in the same case, the former Minister of Energy and Mines, Chakib Khalil Baouba, to 20 years in prison, and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mohamed Bedjaoui, to 5 years in prison, with the support of the international arrest warrant against them.
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