Two ex-prime ministers Ahmed Ouyahia and Abdelmalek Sellal have been tried in several different cases by the very busy Sidi M'hamed tribunal in central Algiers which has brought down leading associates of Saïd Bouteflika the former president's brother...
After his 2014 re-election Bouteflika overtly favoured an oligarchic elite cultivated by presidential brother Saïd Bouteflika and his allies led by public enemies Ali Haddad and the four Kouninef brothers...
Politics continued during the lockdown including corruption trials in civilian and military courts of oligarchs and other members of the ancien régime including key allies of late military strongman Lt Gen Ahmed Gaïd Salah as well as such fallen luminaries of Bouteflika's rule as ex-premiers Ahmed Ouyahia and Abdelmalek Sellal and business moguls close to Saïd Bouteflika led by Ali Haddad...
