Algeria: investigation of the corruption case of a former chief of security led by Boudiaf

Former Algerian Minister of Health Abdelmalek Boudiaf appeared in front of a Supreme Court investigative advisor on Wednesday to be questioned in corruption cases involving former police chief Abdelghani. Hamel.

Boudiaf continues suspicions of corruption, corruption and subsidy of government projects outside the law on commercial transactions, in favor of the family of General Hamel in the province of Oran, where the minister was governor of the second largest province of the country.

Boudiaf was Minister of Health and Hospitals from September 11, 2013 to May 25, 2017, and then joined the leadership of the ruling party, the National Liberation Front (FLN), on the executive council of the president's election campaign. outgoing Abdelaziz Bouteflika.

Boudiaf continues in other corruption-related cases, when he headed the Ministry of Health and emerged under the manipulation of drug and vaccine files, after the influence of major companies on the import and drug manufacturing sector in the country.

In another case, the Algerian judiciary investigates Boudiaf, suspected of corruption related to the American Embassy, ​​who intervened to grant the project to build a university hospital for the fight against cancer in the eastern province of Constantine, as well as for public projects carried out as part of the Constantine event, the capital of Arab culture 2015.

And he renewed his local associations two weeks ago, invited by the judicial authorities to hold him accountable, for his appointment to key mandates before his appointment to the post of Minister of Health and hospitals during the fourth presidential term of office. former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has seen a recovery of serious and multiple corruption cases.

The coordination of Algerian civil society revealed that she was referring to judicial corruption files related to the handling of real estate and the procurement of illegal contracts and labor abuses related to corruption. former Minister of Health and the leadership of the ruling party.