كتب الشروق أونلاين The Aurassi Hotel Scandal Returns to Court Next Wednesday..اخبار عربية عبر موقع نبض الجديد - شاهد English The Aurassi Hotel Scandal Returns to Court Next WednesdayNouara Bachouche English version Dalila Henache2025 03 1610On Wednesday, March 19, the former CEO of the... , نشر في الأحد 2025/03/16 الساعة 04:18 م بتوقيت مكة المكرمة التفاصيل ومشاهدتها الان .
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The Aurassi Hotel Scandal Returns to Court Next Wednesday
Nouara Bachouche / English version: Dalila Henache
2025/03/16
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On Wednesday, March 19, the former CEO of the El Aurassi Hotel, “I.A.”, and the hotel’s Finance Director, “K.H.”, will appear before the court on corruption charges that led to the squandering of billions of dinars.
The two defendants will appear before the First Criminal Chamber of the Algiers Judicial Council, charged with squandering significant funds on a project to rehabilitate, refurbish, and begin renovation work on the “El Aurassi” Hotel in Algiers, aiming to upgrade it to a 5-star hotel with international hotel standards.
In the details of the incident, the state allocated a huge budget in 2009 to rehabilitate the “Aurassi Hotel” and begin renovation work to upgrade it to a five-star hotel. However, these funds evaporated and were squandered here and there, without the project being implemented on the ground. This resulted in huge losses to the public treasury amounting to billions of dinars, due to the use of contractual agreements.
However, the financial envelope suspiciously evaporated as part of a deal concluded with a Turkish businessman (a contractor) estimated to €67 million. Judicial investigations revealed that the total work price difference was approximately €100 million, equivalent to DZD 1,442 billion.
The Court of Auditors’ report, dated October 31, 2017, also noted several violations and abuses, including the absence of scoring and evaluation criteria in the specifications for selecting the contracting operator, the weakness of the technical and economic studies conducted by the foreign engineering firm “IMM”, responsible for studying and monitoring the overall project of the contract, which resulted in the conclusion of successive annexes to cover additional work, and the failure to establish internal procedures for concluding and monitoring the public contract.
The same report also indicated that the project cost nearly tripled, exceeding €67 million, due to the inclusion of addenda exceeding the financial value of the original contract. These addenda were not agreed upon in the specifications signed between the management of the Aurassi Hotel and the Turkish project owner. The report also revealed the failure to respect implementation deadlines, extending the deadline from 22 to 26 months, and the failure to recover lump sum advances on work status.
The defendants in this case are appearing before the First Chamber of the Algiers Judicial Council on charges of abuse of office, misappropriation of public funds, forgery, and the use of forged documents in administrative procedures.
On October 25, the Algiers Sidi M’hamed Misdemeanor Court sentenced the former CEO of the Aurassi Hotel, “I.A.”, and the finance director of the same hotel, “K.H.”, to five years in prison and a fine of one million dinars, along with financial compensation to the public treasury estimated at DZD 10 million.
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