Algeria drops 1/4 million cheaters from housing lists

Algerian authorities dropped about 1/4 million cheaters out of 543,037 applicants for houses, Echorouk has learnt.

In 2013, authorities dropped 16,622 cheaters in the 2001-2002 AADL housing project and 87,263 in the AADL 2 program. In 2014, a total of 1,700 names were dropped.

According to the same sources, a surveillance operation was conducted on 217,543 applications in 2014.

Employees at official institutions are among cheaters

Authorities dropped around 10,000 applicants who work in official institutions and administration. In 2014, a total of 29,157 applications were subject to surveillance. Of them, 4,879 were banned. In the first trimester of 2015, a total of 5,642 applicants out of 49,926 were dropped.