The Algerian judiciary, on the orders of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, will summon ministers, some of their close relatives, as well as children of high-ranking officials, including the son of a former general-general, in the course of the investigation. on the cocaine case. This is what El Bilad reported on Thursday, August 30th.
The case of the seizure, on May 29, of 701 kg of cocaine aboard a boat in the port of the city of Oran, supposed to transport red meat imported from Brazil on behalf of Kamel Chikhi, nicknamed “Kamel the butcher”, will know new developments in the coming days, according to the Algerian Arabic newspaper El Bilad, in its edition of August 30.
According to the newspaper, the investigation into this case of cocaine will resume on the order of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who asked that no person involved in this scandal be spared by justice, whatever his rank in state institutions.
According to sources well informed and quoted by the media, the investigating judge in charge of this case will address very soon convocations to ministers in office in the current government, as well as some of their relatives related to this case cocaine.
In this context, these same sources indicated that the ministers concerned by these convocations will be heard once released from their responsibilities within the government, a ministerial reshuffle probably being close.
The investigation, according to the daily, would this time also target the children of senior officials, including the son of a major-major in the Algerian army, who was dismissed by the President of the Republic there are some days. A decision that would have been motivated by the concern to avoid the justice of possible influences that would disrupt the course of the investigation.
In its 30 August edition, the Algeriepatriotique information website said that “the reactivation of the investigation into this cocaine case, at this very moment, confirms the existence of a direct link between this scandal and the vast a movement that has been going on for several weeks within the security corps, in a sense that the investigation could only have advanced in a clean and, above all, calmed atmosphere. […] This suggests that permutations and retirements within security and military institutions are going to end in a truce. ”
As a reminder, Mohammed Elias Rahmani, a senior Algerian intelligence officer who served in the Central Directorate of Security of the Army (DCSA), said in an interview with Sputnik that the drug seized in Oran was in the context of a narco-terrorism case, which constitutes a paramilitary attack against Algeria, orchestrated by third countries.
As the investigation progressed on the relationship and connections of the first concerned in this case, “Kamel the Butcher,” says this intelligence specialist, DCSA officers “discovered that there was a network. of espionage and influence, who even managed to recruit sons of high dignitaries and state officials, thinking they were doing business with Kamel Chikhi “.
The case of the seizure of cocaine May 29 in the port of Oran by the naval forces has sparked a wave of changes in the bodies of the Algerian state, affecting in the first place the general direction of the National Security (DGSN), the National Gendarmerie and finally the ANP (National People’s Army).
