Customs' General Manager Launches a Series of Reforms

General Manager of Customs, Mohamed Abdou Bouderbala, launched a series of transfers on customs’ staff, including managers, inspectors and heads of inspectorates at sections and teams in all wilayas, as this changes will extend gradually to include airports and ports.

In this context, sources from the General Directorate of Customs told Echorouk that the General Manager, Mohamed Abdou Bouderbala, appointed the Regional Director of Customs in Oran “Arbi Djilali”, who headed the Regional Direction of Customs in Tlemcen (west of Algeria), and will also appoint Mohammed Ben Brahim a Regional Manager of Customs in Tlemcen, after he ‭took the same mission in ‭Bechar (south of Algeria), and Abbas Hadi, a Regional Manager of ‭Customs in ‭Annaba (eastern Algeria), who was ‭formerly the Regional Manager of Tebessa (eastern Algeria).

The series of change will also reach heads of inspectorates, and departments and team leaders in Eastern, Western and Southern wilayas, and in the center of the country as well, as it will include more than 10 heads, and all the customs officers who have exceeded a year in service regardless of their position, which fall within the policy of recycling in order to avoid the routine of customs officers, who stayed in the same area for a long time, which exposes them to various temptations offered by their functions.

the movement of change will reach all airports and ports in the coming few days, both located in the center, the west and east of the country.

Echorouk sources asserted that the change that touched the Customs, excluded some positions that require special procedures like the customs’ checkers and public accountants.

The series of transfers came in the context of reforms aiming to apply the preventive plan of corruption and preventing the strengthening of relationships between ‭customs and the mafia of ‭smuggling.