President of the National People’s Assembly, Ibrahim Boughali, praised today, Tuesday, the giant steps that Algeria has made in recovering looted money and confiscating embezzled property, stressing that it deserves to silence all the voices of doubters.
In his speech after voting on the bill related to the prevention of money laundering and the financing of terrorism and combating them, at the headquarters of the National People’s Assembly, Mr. Boughali praised Algeria’s “giant strides in recovering looted money and confiscating misappropriated property”, stressing that “the staggering figures announced recently by the President of the Republic, Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune, on this subject deserves to silence all the voices of doubters.
In this regard, the President of the Council criticized those skeptics who he said “are still running some cylinders to hit the state’s credibility and its determination to fight corruption and track down corrupt people, at a time when they remain silent about the corruption that has spread in the corridors of institutions claiming to make and export democracy, just as they remain silent about the brutal crimes committed that activists of just causes and those who defend the rights of their people to life and freedom are exposed to.”
In this context, he referred to the case of the Sahrawi activist, Sultana Khaya, who fell – according to the media – a victim of a resounding corruption scandal in the European Parliament in which Morocco was implicated after being excluded from the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought of the European Parliament.
Mr. Boughali considered that this case is “evidence of this exposed collusion and another episode added to the episodes of involvement in cases of corruption, bribery and people-buying.”
In a related context, the President of the Council stressed that the transformation that is taking place in Algeria and aims to establish a state of right and law is “comprehensive and integrated” within the framework of “the strategy that Algeria has embarked on since Mr. Abdelmadjid Tebboune established a legislative system whose ultimate goal is to build a state of law in which all Algerians are equal in rights and duties.
He added that the new Algeria “starts to rectify all conditions by applying the law, which the President of the Republic has been stressing on, and it is the task undertaken by the judiciary,” considering that the approval of a draft law that addresses the most prominent manifestations of corruption “is evidence of continuing efforts to achieve this targeted transformation.”
He explained that, since the beginning of the legislative term, Parliament had begun to “revive the laws and adapt them to the amended constitution, and among the first of these laws were those related to combating all forms of corruption,” noting that Algeria “has made considerable progress in this regard and corrected the distortion in a short period of no more than three years.”
On the other hand, Mr. Boughali praised the increases in wages and in granting retirement and unemployment approved by the President of the Republic during the last cabinet, stressing that they are “all in the interest of the citizen, in order to achieve a decent life and fulfill the obligations of the President of the Republic to the Algerian people.”
