General Managers of Tourist Resorts Sentenced to 3 and 2 years in Prison
Algiers Judicial Council issued its rulings on Wednesday in the corruption case of “the operation of equipping and rehabilitating a group of hotels”, reducing the sentence of the former general manager of the tourism, hotel and mineral treatment hammams “L. B” from 5 years to 3 years in prison, compared to 2 years in jail instead of 4 years for the general manager of the Sidi Fredj tourist complex “Kh. M”, and a fine of DZD 1 million against each of them.
Furthermore, the President of the Criminal Chamber of the Algiers Judicial Council reduced the sentence of a consultant at the “T.Y” engineering office from 4 years to 2 years in prison with a fine of DZD 1 million against him, and the confiscation of all the seized property ordered by the investigating judge, including those located abroad, as well as the seizure of real estate and bank accounts of the convicted defendants and their family members.
The judge upheld the verdicts issued by the Economic and Financial Pole Court of Sidi M’hamed against the rest of the accused, convicting the head of the restoration and modernization project of the tourist complex in Sidi Frejd, the accused “S.Dj”, and 2 years in prison against the CEO of the Zeralda Tourism Management Establishment “S.M.” and the accused “K.B.”, a trader at the “CTAU” office for architectural studies.
The court upheld the acquittal ruling against the remaining defendants prosecuted in the same case.
The Attorney General of the Algiers Judicial Council had demanded that the defendants be subjected to harsher penalties and maximum penalties against the 15 defendants who the Court of First Instance of the Economic and Financial Pole acquitted.
The defendants were prosecuted at the First Chamber of the Algiers Judicial Council on serious charges ranging from deliberate squandering and illegal use of the public property and funds entrusted to them in the context of their position, conflict of interest, deliberate abuse of office to grant unjustified privileges to others, granting unjustified privileges, on the occasion of concluding a contract or deal with the state or one of its institutions, in a manner that violates laws and regulations, inciting public employees to exploit their actual and supposed influence to obtain an undue advantage, taking advantage of the authority and influence of state agents during the conclusion of contracts to obtain undue advantages, illicit enrichment, and money laundering by using the facilities provided by the professional activity.
