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Algerian MP detained for money laundering
[AFRICANEWS] Algerian member of parliament, Baha Eddine Tliba has been detained. The businessman was remanded in jug on Thursday over money laundering and secretly financing political parties.According to the official APS news agency, Tliba is facing prosecution for illegally financing the electoral campaign of former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika  ...10th president-for-life of Algeria. He was elected in 1999 and served on his third or four terms. When he announced for the fifth, or maybe it was the sixth, visibly doddering, a grateful nation rose up in its wrath and threw him out...Baha Eddine Tliba, a member of the former president’s National Liberation Front ...the Turkic paramilitaries intended to replace with their native jihadi ferocity all the highly trained Turkish soldiers Sultan Erdogan I the much belovedhas jailed in the last few years for not worshipping the ground he walks upon. The Uighurs and so forth who did not join Al Nusra or ISIS seem to have ended up here... party, had his parliamentary immunity lifted on September 25 at the request of the Justice Minister. He is one of the last victims of an Algerian judicial hunt for powerful businessmen close to Bouteflika since his resignation in April. Most of them are suspected of having taken advantage of their ties with the former president or his entourage to obtain benefits or public contracts. Related: Money laundering: 2019-10-12 South African High Court orders Zuma to be tried Money laundering: 2019-10-09 EU observers regret Tunisia ‘silent campaign’ ahead of vote Money laundering: 2019-10-01 Hunter Biden tied to China firm with questionable dealings Related: Abdelaziz Bouteflika: 2019-10-09 Algiers police prevent weekly student demo for first time Abdelaziz Bouteflika: 2019-09-18 Algerians protest against planned presidential vote Abdelaziz Bouteflika: 2019-09-14 Algerians take to the streets to oppose presidential poll Related: National Liberation Front: 2019-09-26 Jihadist attack on northern Khan Sheikhoun ends in failure National Liberation Front: 2019-09-07 Intense clashes breakout for second straight night in northern Syria National Liberation Front: 2019-09-06 Russia says no soldiers killed in northern Syria despite militant claims Posted by: Fred 2019-10-19 |
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