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Algeria’s ex-prime minister, health minister get 5 years in jail

Noureddine Bedoui addresses media, in Algiers [File: Anis Belghoul/AP]

Algeria’s former Prime Minister Noureddine Bedoui and former Health Minister Abdelmalek Boudiaf have been sentenced to five years in prison and fined 1 million Algerian dinars ($7,383), according to the state press agency.

The pair were sentenced on Wednesday by the Economic and Financial Penal Court in the municipality of Sidi M’hamed in a corruption case.

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