Abdelghani Hamel

Algeria's ex-Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia seen as Bouteflika's most likely successor just a few months ago Finance Minister Mohamed Loukal and former police chief Abdelghani Hamel have all appeared in court this week in three different cases involving corruption allegations...

Officers have been reshuffled and retired across the security services since the sacking in June of Major General Abdelghani Hamel of the Direction générale de la Sûreté nationale (DGSN)...

That affair which emerged after 701 kilogrammes of cocaine were seized in Oran in late May has put paid to the ambitions of high-flying Direction général de la sûreté nationale (DGSN) chief Major General Abdelghani Hamel...

The police chief Major General Abdelghani Hamel of the Direction générale de la sûreté nationale has ordered increased surveillance of borders citing intelligence from Iraq and Syria that more Algerians who joined Da'ish are coming home...

This initiative was pushed by Algeria's head of the police the Direction générale de la sûreté nationale Major General Abdelghani Hamel...

Abdelghani Hamel one of the more publicly ambitious officers...

The Direction Générale de la Sûreté Nationale (DGSN) police chief former Republican Guard Commander General Abdelghani Hamel is said to be doing a better job than his predecessor Colonel Ali Tounsi in controlling crime in the capital a growing preoccupation...