Officials In Algerian Tobacco Company Gave 50.000 Euros Bribe For Greek, Tunisian Companies

Algiers Criminal Court scheduled, during the next criminal session, the judicial file that is related to the defendants in the rotten tobacco case that was made by the National Company for Tobacco and sulphur “SNTA”, as it will open the file in order to look at the facts, and hear two of the defendants during the trial, including the main suspect in the case, who is called “Kh.S”, a member of the board of directors at the company, who will face several charges, including the felony of organising a criminal cell, and misdemeanours of money laundering, influence peddling, abuse of office, conflict of interest, taking benefits illegally, request or accepting directly or indirectly an undue advantage.

The court will also listen to the so-called “M.A”, who is a commercial director of the Tunisian Company for Modern Packaging, while the Greek company’s officials who are called Michalidas Alexandros and Geliodis Dorothea are still wanted after the issuance of an international arrest warrant against them.

According to the case’s file, the implicated were found after the information that was received by the judicial police services of the regional services of query, which opened out an investigation that revealed that the accused “Kh. S” get bribes by the foreign economic partners of the Algerian Company of Tobacco and Sulphur, that ranged between 10.000 and 50.000 Euros, compared with the signing of contracts to supply the company with rotten tobacco and packaging material, and opening the way for them to win the transactions of the company, and they were also provided with information about the needs of the company schemes.

Investigations indicate that the accused received considerable bribes after the facilities that were provided by the officials of the Greek company, and another bribes for the representative of the Tunisian company, waiting to uncover other facts in the court’s hearing session.