Chakib Khelil

Knives are also out for the company's vice-president Abdelhamid Raïs Ali and old cases involving former energy minister Chakib Khelil are being re-opened...

Also closely watched will be Bouteflika's old friend Chakib Khelil: the former Energy Minister is still trying to revive a career in public life following the Sonatrach corruption crisis which reached its peak in 2015 (AC Vol 44 No 5 Minister in peril)...

DRS investigations had targeted allies of 'Boutef' such as former Energy Minister and childhood friend Chakib Khelil who re-emerged in May courting zaouïas (Sufi brotherhoods) in a bid to return to politics (AC Vol 44 No 5 Minister in peril)...

Names mentioned include Prosecutor Belkacem Zoghmati (whose targets included ex-Energy Minister Chakib Khelil Bouteflika's friend since boyhood) and the Director General of the anti-corruption bureau the Office central de répression de la corruption Abdelmalek Sayah...

As his boyhood friend and close aide former Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil faced an international arrest warrant in August and the latest corruption crisis in the state oil company Sonatrach reached a new level of intensity the Bouteflika clan was under intense pressure...

The press is full of speculation that former Energy Minister Chakib Khelil a school friend and close ally of Bouteflika's is among those being investigated; police raided his Algiers properties while he was abroad...

President Bouteflika signalled further changes in the oversight of the oil and gas sector with the sacking of Minister of Energy and Mines Chakib Khelil a former Sonatrach employee and World Bank economist who had held the portfolio since December 1999...

Medjoub also named Pierre Falcone who was invited to a meeting to discuss construction plans for the Highway with Public Works Minister Amar Ghoul Energy Minister Chakib Khelil and Finance Minister Abdellatif Benachenhou...

Companies politians and officials with stakes in the investigations include: President Bouteflika and his political allies the ousted President Director General of Sonatrach Mohammed Meziane and Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil...

Even the urbane Algerian Energy and Mines Minister Chakib Khelil a former World Bank official said that if Egyptian immigrants left Asians would replace them if Algerians did not take their jobs...