Algeria: Intelligence services back new anti-corruption body


Issue 257 - 28 Jun 2013 | 3 minute read

Algeria’s new anti-corruption body has received a boost with news that agents from the defence and interior ministries’ judicial police forces will be seconded to the Office Central de Répression de la Corruption (OCRC), which is attached to the Ministry of Finance. The OCRC was created by presidential decree in 2011, but only started to operate in March this year. The decision to empower this new body comes three years after the first allegations of corruption in the energy sector led to the dismissal of Sonatrach’s entire senior management and the resignation of energy and mines minister Chakib Khelil. However, new allegations continue to emerge.

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