“Life” Certificates for dead people to benefit from monthly pensions in Euros

Judicial police services have launched a broad investigation into a suspected network of more than 30 people involved in forgery and the use of forgery.

This ring of counterfeiters are said to operate at the level of Algiers and neighboring provinces with the complicity of some agents of the services of the civil status and a number of municipal officials.

The latter are involved in illegal practices whereby they forge and issue “life certificates” for dead people in exchange for three million centimes (DA) used to testify that the recipient is ostensibly still “alive” in order to benefit from the granting of the Mujahideen allowances, and retirement pensions in Euros.

Details of the case, according to the information available to “Echorouk” hark back to the receipt of information by the security services about a shadowy counterfeiting network comprising more than 30 people and reportedly active the level of Algiers and a number of neighboring provinces along the lines of Tipaza, Blida, Boumerdes, Bouira and others, with the complicity of a number of agents and executives of the services of the civil status departments there.

Informed sources said that the network’s members “hunted down” customers, with the complicity of agents of the services of the civil status by forging and issuing “life” certificates in the names of dead people with a view to allowing them to benefit from the Mudjahideen monthly pensions as well as from the retirement allowances paid in Euros for those Algerian retirees who worked in France in the framework of immigration.

The security investigations are still ongoing with the aim of rounding up all the culprits involved in these illegal practices and unraveling all the intricacies of this somber affair before conveying the relevant fact-finding file to Justice.