23 June 2023; MEMO: An Algerian court on Wednesday handed five year prison terms to former Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui and former Health Minister Abdelmalek Boudiaf, and fined them one million dinars ($7,383), the state news agency said, according to Reuters.
The sentences relate to a corruption case.
The two former officials were involved in a project involving the construction of a new international airport in the state of Constantine. The cost of the project escalated to nearly seven times the original estimate, and it took a decade longer to build than the four years projected length of the project, costing the public treasury huge sums of money, according to news outlet Al Mayadeen.
