Gendarmerie Arrest A Money Smuggling Cell In Algiers

Algiers gendarmerie forces ended an episode of the case of looting public money that is led by cells of money laundering and smuggling to abroad, as the research platoon arrested a gang that is specialized in hard currency smuggling and led by a woman, 33, who was in the process of smuggling nearly 3 million Euros and dollars at Houari Boumediene airport, and to Tunisia after it succeeded in smuggling 7 billion centimes with the help of masterminds who have many shops, villas and commercial vehicles in the capital and its suburbs.

Details of the case, according to information which was received by Echorouk, is back to receiving information by Algiers gendarmerie research platoon, about the activity of an international cell to smuggle money of various foreign currency like the “Euro, dollars, US dollars, Canadian dollars, pounds, Chinese Yen and TND” to abroad, led by a person named “K.N”, who lives in Guaridi, Kouba in Algiers.

As a result, the gendarmes investigators launch a depth investigation, which resulted in its start in identifying one of the key elements of the criminal cell, who is a woman, aged 33, known as El Hadja, who wons a shop in Algiers Klosal market, where she was put under constant surveillance under continuous investigation in the case, then investigators make sure of the existence of other partners in the money-smuggling operation towards abroad via the international airport of Houari Boumediene and many of the eastern border corridors towards Tunisia, and it comes to the brothers “S” and “J” who live in a building adjacent to the Square market near Abbane Ramdane Court, who are called “F” and “K-R”, the owners of a commercial store in Hussein Dey and Central Algiers.

Gendarmerie exploited the information, and after confirming the transfer and the smuggling of a considerable sum of money in hard currency, starting from the center of Algiers towards Houari Boumediene airport, a plan was prepared, and after depth investigation in the Central Algiers, Dali Ibrahim, Telimeli, Bir Khadem, Rouiba, and Dar Bida, and the gendarmes investigators to track the movements of gang members, from central Algiers towards the east of the capital, and on the basis of these investigations the way was identified, and after making sure of the fact that those amounts of hard currency are camouflaged by a taxi driver called “Ch”, who transferred them towards the international airport together with a car of type Peugeot 407, while one of the members called “Y” passed them and facilitated the smuggling operation procedures.

Investigation continued and a plan was prepared by the security team of intervention of Algiers National Gendarmerie, in order to seize all the money before smuggling them to abroad, where a member of the cell, who is called “K.N”,62, was arrested aboard of a Peugeot 407 at the highway, and after subjecting the car to a thorough inspection, they discovered and seized a sum of money of various national and foreign currency, that was securely hidden in several places of the car.