Fake War Veterans’ Scandal: 24 accused are brought before justice

Algiers Criminal Court will open, in a session on December, 23, what is known as the case of “fraud in the files of affiliation to war veterans”, in which 24 accused are brought before the judicial control, of whom 10 women and the rest are men, and most of them are former officials in of the War Veterans Ministry, and the rest are fake war veterans who benefited from affiliation to the revolution illegally.

The 24 accused will answer the criminal judge questions, Bakri Boualem, regarding their relationship on charges of fraud in a public register, the use of counterfeiter, fraud and bribery, and participation in counterfeiting, as these facts harmed the credibility of the War Veterans Ministry.

This case is related to another scandal of “fake war veterans”, as the judicial investigations in the file revealed the presence of a number of people who have benefited through counterfeiting and forgery of the war veterans’ grant, as well as other privileges, and this until the scandal of 2006, in which former officials in the War Veterans Ministry enabled those persons to obtain files to prove their affiliation to the revolution at a time when some of them were born after independence, and through this fraud they have received large financial grants, and the process was made by falsifying enrollment certificate, and putting the relevant names in the ministry’s records, without the presence of their basic files.

It is known that the investigation into the case was launched in 2006, based on a complaint that was made by the Secretary General of the War Veterans Ministry, after the discovery of a large fraud in the records of the War Veterans basal data, then  an investigation opened in the facts, and he discovered the fraud of the involved in the certificates of affiliation to the liberation revolution, at the time when their basal files are not existing the ministry’s database, as they were originally born after independence, between 1955 and 1965.