Algerian ex-Prime Minister,
Abdelmalek Sellal has been detained for ‘corruption‘
Algeria‘s Supreme Court has
jailed former Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal for corruption. In an
anti-corruption crackdown, this makes the second former head of government in
two days to be sent to prison while his case is being investigated.
The former trade minister
Amara Benyounes was also detention based on court orders, over alleged
involvement in corruption, private channel Ennahar TV reported.
“Sellal, who left office in
a May 2017 cabinet reshuffle after serving as premier and Bouteflika’s campaign
manager several times, is under investigation over dissipation of public funds.
Former trade minister Amara Benyounes, who served under Sellal from April 2014
to July 2015, appeared before the supreme court in a corruption case’’ state
television said.
A statement on Thursday by
the prosecutor’s office said that Sellal is being investigated for “corruption
and dilapidation of public funds” among other things.
Sellal, 70, was questioned
earlier Thursday by an investigative judge at the Supreme Court in cases
related to waste of public money, abuse of power and illegal favouritism,
Algeria’s official news agency APS reported, without providing further details.
Benyounes, who served under
Sellal from April 2014 to July 2015, is also the leader of the pro-government
party the Algerian Popular Movement.
State television also said
police had arrested Mourad Eulmi, head of the private firm SOVAC, a partner of
Germany’s Volkswagen AG, at a car assembly plant in the western province of
Relizane in connection with “corruption cases”.
Abdelmalek Sellal detained
for corruption, comes a day after former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia, a
leading political figure forced out in March, was sent to the El Harrach prison
– in which Sellal was jailed.
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