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Home Top News Jailed Algerian ex-minister dies

Jailed Algerian ex-minister dies

by News desk
July 19, 2020
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Algiers

A former Algerian cabinet minister detained in a corruption case has died from an infections of Covid-19, a news website reported on Saturday, quoting his brother. Ex-telecom minister Moussa Benhamadi, once close to ex-president Abdelaziz Bouteflika, contracted the novel coronavirus earlier this month and died on Friday, said his brother Hocine Benhamadi. He was 67. “He contracted the virus on July 4 and was only transferred to hospital in Algiers on July 13,” the brother told the website of French-language daily Liberte. Moussa Benhamadi had been held in pre-trial detention at El Harrach prison since September 2019 as part of an investigation into corruption involving the Algerian high-tech firm Condor Electronics.—AFP