Algeria bans corruption suspects from leaving the country after launching probes into graft and illegal money transfers abroad – prosecutors
Ali Haddad, a businessman close to President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, was arrested overnight on March 30-31, 2019, at a border crossing with Tunisia, according to an Algerian security source.
The authorities did not say who was being targeted by the new investigations into corruption and illegal money transfers abroad, but they followed the arrest of the president's key backer, businessman Ali Haddad.Haddad, who Forbes magazine describes as one of Algeria's wealthiest entrepreneurs, was detained overnight Saturday to Sunday at a border post with neighbouring Tunisia, a security source said, without giving reasons for the arrest.
The move has done little to assuage public ire and hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Algiers on Friday demanding the president and his entourage go. The administration – which is supposed to steward the country towards a transition – includes Salah remaining in his position as deputy defence minister.
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