Algeria’s Justice Minister Tayeb Belaiz revealed on radio program on Friday that the application of the anti-corruption law brought out the open 2691 corruption cases, in which more than five thousand people were convicted.

• The Algerian radio cited Justice Minister Attaib Baleiz as saying that public prosecution has referred 2691 cases to the courts since the application of the anti-corruption law in 2006, with 5086 people involved convicted with imprisonment.
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• The Minister of Justice Tayeb Belaiz has asserted that there are 479 corruption cases registered in 2009, with 673 convicted compared with 807 registered in 2008, with 1694 convicted.
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• Baleiz has underscored that both of the Algerian government and the judiciary authority are bent on the strict application of the anti-corruption law, banning the manipulation of public money, fighting nepotism and laws fraud.
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• The “clean hands” campaign also put powerful governors in jail and forbade chief executive officers from leaving the country. There was a crackdown on customs authorities in February 2006: one hundred agents were fired, and 530 were being sued for alleged involvement in several corruption affairs.
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• Already sentenced in absentia in March 2004 to five years of prison and a fine of $85 million for banking violations, Abdelmoumen Khalifa’s case is the most famous in Algeria, as he was trialed several times for the “scandal of the century” involving his defunct Khalifa Bank. At least five former ministers and forty heads of state enterprises are witnesses also faced prosecution.
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• Algeria scored 3.2 on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index 2008. The scale runs from 0 (high corruption) to 10 (no corruption). Algeria was in 92nd place, ahead of Lebanon but behind Morocco, among 180 countries. In 2007 Algeria scored 3.0 and was in 99th place, tied with Lebanon and ahead of Egypt as well as Mauritania, among 180 countries. In 2006 Algeria scored 3.1 and was in 84th place, tied with Mauritania, among 163 countries.