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Brother of ex-president Bouteflika jailed for 8 years

The jailed brother of late Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika was handed an eight-year prison sentence for corruption on Monday, local media reported. Said Bouteflika’s co-defendant, construction tycoon Ali Haddad, who is also in prison on other charges, was sentenced to four years and both fined.

They had been accused of influence peddling, abuse of power, money laundering and failure to declare assets.
In October, both men had been sentenced to two years in prison for obstruction of justice, but Bouteflika was exonerated in that case by an appeals court in May.

The sentences handed down by the Algerian courts are not added up, and only the longest sentence is served.

Said Bouteflika, 64, was long seen as the real power behind his ailing brother, whose bid for a fifth term sparked mass protests in 2019 that ultimately forced him to resign. Abdelaziz Bouteflika‘s downfall was followed by a series of prosecutions against senior members of his inner circle.

His brother was arrested in May 2019 and sentenced to 15 years for “conspiring against the State and the army” in the days before the resignation of the former president.

Earlier last year, he was acquitted of those charges by a military appeals court, but handed over to a civilian court to stand trial on corruption charges.

Source: Reuters

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