Judicial Services Open Investigation In The Embezzlement Of DZD 4000 Billion

General Attorney of Algiers Judicial Council, referred last Wednesday, the file of suspicious deals and inflated invoices for the completion of oil stations along the east-west highway with a total value of nearly DZD 400 billion, to the prosecutor of the Republic at the Court of Sidi Mhamed, which will order the research group of Algiers regional Gendarmerie Algeria to urgently open an investigation into the case.

Investigations ordered by the General Attorney of Algiers Judicial Court are part of the opening of a series of corruption cases that were mentioned seven days ago.

According to Echorouk sources, the public prosecutor ordered the opening of investigations on the file of suspicious transactions in the completion of oil stations along the East-West highway on Wednesday, April 3, and sent the order to the public prosecutor of Sidi Mhamed court to open the investigation of the case through the assignment of judicial control of the research group of the national gendarmerie.

According to the available information, which was the firstly published by Echorouk, the manipulation was to inflate the bills of completion of oil stations, was at the level of two stations in the area, in “Yallal” in Ghelizane province, western Algeria, and two stations in Ain Defla, and two oil stations in Ain Zada, Bourdj Bouariridj, and two oil stations in the region of Babour in Ain Arnat, Setif province (eastern Algeria), and an oil station in Chalghoum El Eid in the state of Mila (eastern Algeria), with a total value of about DZD 4 million at an estimated cost of DZD 285 million per station.

This figure which is DZD 285 million per oil station is very exaggerated compared to the real financial value which do not exceed DZD 10 billion, according to the report that was prepared by experts from the audit department of “Naftal” company.

Corruption in the conclusion of dozens of NAFTAL transactions by mutual consent in a manner that violated the legislation was uncovered by the notification to the Central Director of the audit and reporting documents and files that are full of dangerous violations in various services, led by the Directorate of Trade, which recorded dozens of cases of looting and theft of equipment and oil materials.