EXTRADITION OF ABDELMOUMENE KHALIFA : The British justice to decide on January 29 ( Justice Minister)

Following the suspicious, strange and puzzling information by some local and international voices since days, that the famous Algerian billionaire, detained in the British prison, Rafik Abdelmoumene Khalifa, has received assurances by his lawyers that he will be released in the coming few days. The British justice is expected to issue its decision about the extradition of Abdeloumemen Khalifa January 29, accoring to statements by the Algerian Justice Minister Tayeb Belaiz in Bordj Bouariridj, east of Algiers. 

• The minister added, during his visit to Bordj Bouariridj, east of Algiers, that the British Interior Minister asked and got an extra time by his country’s justice in order to reconsider the case of the request to extradite the accused Abdelmoumene Khalifa to Algeria.
• Previously, the British justice approved the decision to extradite khalifa to Algeria, however, experts in law thought ( June 2008) that Khalifa, sentenced in absentia by the Algerian justice to life prison, that his extradition would take  longer  time, particularly with the possible appeal in the expected decision which will be announced by the British Foreign Minister about extradition of the “golden boy”, who flied on his way in the Algerian sky, since the establishment  of the commercial group khalifa in 1998 and his suspicious success, before it had been closed in 2003, causing a huge financial deficit, as the bankrupted company also caused large losses to the Algerian public treasury estimated to more than two billion dollars, as well as the damage of 133 companies owned by government, and 250.000  customers who put their savings in Khalifa bank.
• Describing the case as “sensitive” and “complicated”, British Ambassador to Algiers Andrew Henderson on Sunday (October 25th) said the London court “needs more time”.
• Abdelmoumene Rafik Khalifa (born October 1, 1966) is an Algerian businessman living in London. He was condemned to a life sentence, charged of criminal association, corruption, abuse of trust, and forgery. His trial was one of the largest in Algeria involving the embezzlement of more than $1 billion through a range of Khalifa-linked companies.