MADRID, 12 (EUROPA PRESS)
The Algerian Prosecutor’s Office has demanded a seven-year prison sentence against Said Buteflika, brother of the late Algerian President Abdelaziz Buteflika, in the framework of a case for corruption and abuse of his functions.
The former president’s brother is on trial in relation to the alleged hidden financing of Buteflika’s campaign to a fifth term, which caused a wave of popular mobilizations and finally his departure from power after losing support in the Army and the political leadership.
Said Buteflika, arrested in May 2019, shortly after the resignation of his brother, was already sentenced in January 2020 to 15 years in prison in the framework of a case for “plotting against the authority of the State and the Army, although he was acquitted in January 2021 after the appeal process.
However, Buteflika remains in prison pending the resolution of this process, in which the Prosecutor’s Office has also requested ten years in prison for the former Minister of Justice Tayeb Luh, accused of falsifying documents and inciting partiality, according to has reported the Algerian state news agency, APS.
Likewise, the Prosecutor’s Office has requested seven years in prison for the former secretary general of the Ministry of Justice Laayine Zuaui, the former inspector general of the same Ministry Tayeb Belhacemi and the businessman Alí Hadad, who has already been sentenced in several cases for corruption since he left power. of Buteflika.