Former Foreign Trade Officials Face Up to 5-Year Prison Over Corruption Case

Algiers —The Public Prosecutor at the Dar El Beida Court requested, on sunday, prison sentences ranging from four to seven years against the defendants present at trial, including former officials of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Export Promotion, as well as a number of business operators, in a sprawling corruption case involving the manipulation of import licences.

During a hearing the public prosecutor also sought a 10-year prison sentence for a fugitive defendant accused of participating in what investigators described as an “empire” built on influence peddling and illicit financial gain through manipulating the import licenses.

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