The President of the National People’s Assembly (APN), Mr. Brahim Boughali, praised on Tuesday the gigantic steps taken by Algeria in the recovery of embezzled funds and the confiscation of looted property, stressing that they were able to silence all skeptics.
Speaking after the vote on the bill on the prevention and fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism, at the headquarters of the APN, Mr. Boughali welcomed “the gigantic steps taken by Algeria in the recovery of embezzled funds and the confiscation of looted property”, stressing that “the staggering figures recently announced by the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, on this subject, are able to silence all skeptics”.
The president of the APN castigated these skeptics who, he said, “take out the same refrain to discredit the State and question its will to fight against corruption and prosecute the corrupters, and who, in the at the same time, pass over in silence the corruption that eats away at institutions that claim to build and export democracy and keep silent about the barbaric crimes of which the militants of just causes who defend the rights of their peoples to life and freedom are victims.
Mr. Boughali, in this context, recalled the case of the Saharawi activist Sultana Khaya, who, according to the media, was the victim of a corruption scandal in the European Parliament involving Morocco, which ousted her from the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought.
This case “lays bare this blatant connivance and comes on top of the episodes of involvement in cases of corruption and the buying of consciences”, he argued.
The change taking place in Algeria to build a rule of law is “global and integrated”, and this is within the framework of “the strategy undertaken by Algeria since the accession to power of Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, and which has established a legislative system with the main objective of establishing a rule of law where Algerians are equal in terms of rights and duties”.
The adoption of a draft law dealing with the main aspects of corruption “demonstrates the continuation of the steps aimed at achieving the desired change”, he said.
Since the beginning of the legislature, the parliament has begun “updating the laws as well as their adaptation to the amended Constitution”, he said, specifying that “among the first laws is that relating to the fight against all forms of corruption”.
Algeria, he continued, has “made great strides in this direction and rectified the situation within a period not exceeding three years”.
Furthermore, Mr. Boughali hailed the increase in wages, retirement pensions, and unemployment benefits decided by the President of the Republic during the last Council of Ministers, stressing that they “all serve the interest of the citizen, to guarantee a decent life and honor the commitments of the President of the Republic to the Algerian people”.
