Algerian ex-PM admits selling gold bars on black market


Former Algerian premier Ahmed Ouyahia (centre, right) says in court that he received gold bars on the black market from friendly Gulf countries but did not reveal the transaction because he did not want to jeopardise relations with those countries. – EPA pic, January 10, 2021.

FORMER Algerian premier Ahmed Ouyahia, on trial for corruption, admitted yesterday to receiving gold bars from Gulf donors then selling them on the black market, the official APS news agency reported.

Ouyahia and fellow ex-prime minister Abdelmalek Sellal are accused of covertly financing the 2019 re-election bid of then-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who resigned shortly afterwards amid mass anti-government protests.


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