Six Foreign Airline Companies are involved in the Smuggling of 1000 billion ZDZ

A 10 pages report, which is existing at the table of the Finance Minister, Abderrahmane Ben Khelifa, and former General Manager of Customs, Mohamed Abdou Bouderbala, revealed on a big scandal, in which six foreign airline companies are involved with the connivance of unknown parties at home in more than 100 billion dinars in a matter of just two years.

Official sources from the Finance Ministry told Echorouk that the report which was prepared by customs’ investigators was raised to the Finance Minister in three stages, and that since 2011 until 2014, as the investigation in the case is still continuing so far, and the report show the involvement of six famous Arab and European foreign airline companies in smuggling money to abroad, which deprived the public treasury and over the years from significant fiscal revenues.

Same report stated the names of companies that are involved with the amount of money that was smuggled by each company.

Report, which contains 10 pages spoke about the way of circumvent on the known foreign airline companies whether from Arab or European countries to smuggle billions of dinars, through the use of the N° of ticket on behalf of one person for two or three times, even though that person did not travel to the concerned destination only once, along with fraudulent statements in the total amount for the total tickets that are acquired by travelers, especially as the Algerian traveler buys a ticket in dinar, and foreign airlines transfer them to their banks in hard currency.

According to the same report, the financial value that was smuggled by the six foreign airline companies exceeded 100 billion dinars, i.e. 1000 billion centimes, in a matter of only two years, but hidden parties sought in every way to turn a blind eye to the establishment of these companies through smuggling money abroad, along the lines with the involvement of a number of travel agencies that are implicated in the smuggling of billions of dinars to abroad.

In contrast, the customs’ services registered a record in the exchange violations in Algeria, counting more than 1878 cases, during which more than 7.000 billion centimes were converted through the use of forged documents and false permits.