Algeria: security forces seize 2 aircraft engines worth 40,000 dollars

Echorouk learnt from well- informed sources that security services seized two aircraft engines last weekend smugglers intended to sell in a metal scrap market in Rouiba ( in Algiers). These engines price exceed 20 thousand U.S Dollars according to an estimated identical price (the equivalent of 140 milion centimes).

• Investigators found the engines which were imported in 2000 inside the packing poxes in the same location. The real price of one new engine is about 3 million dollars (equivalent to 21 billion centimes).
• The same sources mentioned that these engines were found thanks to some information provided by a citizen who informed security authorities about the sale operation of the aircraft engines type “buchcraft 80” made in America. They were imported by the Air Algerie in 2000.
• As for the sized engines, investigations revealed that they were directed to be smuggled abroad in containers in order to be sold at lower prices.
• This is not the first time, assets were sold as well as ferrous materials stolen then sold at lower prices. Two water desalination plants have already been sold by Abdelmoumene Khalifa at over 2,500 billion centimes.
• Ferrous and non- ferrous waste issue caused a big media sensation in the beginning of 2000, where figures revealed huge losses in the public treasury amounted to three thousand billion centimes because of tax evasion and fraudulent registrations.
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