6 Corruption Cases And 14 Charges Leveled Against Chakib Khalil

Investigative advisors for the various Supreme Court chambers have opened 6 corruption files in which the former Minister of Energy and Mines, Chakib Khalil, now on the run overseas, is facing 14 heavy charges, while the financial value of the commissions and benefits the latter obtained through consensual deals exceeded the value of $ 200 million.

In the details that “Echorouk” possesses, the first case in which Chakib Khalil is legally pursued is related to SNC-Lavalin, in which he is charged with “accepting, directly and indirectly, undue benefits and giving them to others in order to perform one of his duties, intentionally granted to others.

These include unjustified privileges when concluding contracts, agreements, deals, and appendices contrary to the legislative and regulatory provisions, in connection with preparing and conducting negotiations for the conclusion and implementation of public deals and contracts in the name of the Algerian state and public economic institutions.

In the case, the person concerned was charged with “squandering public funds, exploiting actual and supposed influence in order to obtain undue benefits and granting them to others, deliberately misusing the job in order to perform work within the framework of practicing the job with the aim of obtaining undue priviliges and granting them to others, directly and indirectly from contracts, tenders, in addition to charges of “money laundering and criminal proceeds resulting from corruption crimes, transfer of property and money resulting from criminal proceeds with the purpose of disguising their illegal source and acquiring and possessing property and money resulting from criminal proceeds”.

In addition, the runaway former minister is also legally pursued during the era of the former president, in cases related to the “Brown and Root Condor” company “BRC”, where the investigating advisor at the Supreme Court charged him with “concluding deals in violation of legislative and regulatory provisions with the purpose of dictating privileges that are justified to others.” Embezzlement and squandering of public funds and illegal use of public and private funds for the benefit of others, taking advantage of the authority and influence of agents to increase prices and unjustified benefits from exemptions and reductions in taxes and fees.

On the other hand, Chakib Khalil faces charges in the “Sonatrach” bribery case, which is related to a $ 250 million bribe incurred by the company and the public treasury as a whole, with the complicity of certain parties, by manipulating the public procurement law to which Sonatrach is subjected to, under the supervision of the Accounting Council and the General Inspectorate of Finance, The case burst out in early 2010 and later developed and expanded by those involved in it through stages known as Sonatrach Cases 1, 2, 3 and 4.

In a related context, the former energy Minister, who fled from justice, was charged with “forming a gang of wicked people” with his wife and two sons, along with his relative, Farid Bedjaoui, in the case related to the deals with the Italian company Eni and its branch, “Saipam”, a case that the current Minister of Justice, Belkacem Zeghmati, exposed when he was serving as deputy Prosecutor of the Algerian Judicial Council in August 2013.