Algeria: Mayors summoned over counterfeiting of Gaddafi mercenaries cards

Security forces in the province of Ouarguela (south of Algiers) summoned a number of municipal officials, officials at the National Centre of Postal Cheques in Algiers and bank directors over fake documents of Africans said to be Gaddafi’s mercenaries, Echorouk has learnt.

• Investigations are still underway. The international network was jailed and will be trialled in a criminal session after the end of deep investigations.
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• Security and judicial investigations are expected to last for months to come up with satisfying results.
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• The suspects were caught with the State’s seals, administrative and official documents about important personalities and identity cards of foreigners who went to fight in Libya.
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• According to security sources, the network may be behind all the fake identity cards of Africans who fight with the Libyan regime militias using Algerian fake names.
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• The mastermind’s assistant is called Colombo. He has ties with drug mafia in Italia. He smuggled tons of drug to Algeria.
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• Security forces seized technological equipments used in organised crime. Of them, there were seals and signatures of well-known personalities in the province, sub-contractors.
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• The network also counterfeited fake banking cheques which were used in transferring huge sums from many victims’ accounts.
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• This comes as the Libyan Transitional Council is accusing Algeria of helping the Libyan regime.