Algeria / Preventive struggle against corruption: Several customs officers reassigned to other duties

The regional Manager of the customs services of the port of Algiers has undertaken a partial reshuffle of the customs corporation at the level of the various structures of the port of Algiers as part of the preventive struggle against corruption practices.

• Well informed sources told Echorouk that this reshuffle concerned 8 customs’ officers and inspectors who had worked more than 3 consecutive years at the port of Algiers.
• The same sources also suggest that a “clean-up operation” is to be launched shortly by the customs’ General Manager and will concern not less than 9 senior officers of the various customs services of several ports of the country.
• In a separate development, customs agents of the port of Algiers have seized, of late, 70 kg of narcotics which were hidden by a Franco- Algerian on board his 406 car bound on a car-ferry boat for the port of Marseille.
• According to a customs’ officer, the value of this drug seized is estimated at 3000 Euros in France while in Algeria it is worth 6 millions centimes.