Recovery of assets looted from corruption crimes - a reading in the Algerian experience

Abstract

The issue of recovery of funds derived from corruption offences is one of the important issues to which national legislation has given great attention, particularly after Algeria's ratification of the United Nations Convention against Corruption. States are eligible to recover their looted funds by developing international plans and strategies guaranteed by international agreement cooperation, or national enshrined in domestic legislation and the laws providing for such recovery mechanisms crime ", asset recovery is crucial in the fight against corruption in order to deprive perpetrators of their illicit profits and ensure that they do not benefit from the crime.

This paper shows Algeria's legal and factual experience in terms of the mechanisms and policies of the Algerian State to recover funds looted from corruption crimes, the adequacy of these mechanisms in achieving their objectives and how to overcome various obstacles, whether by finding international, regional or national solutions.

An important issue in the field of corruption crimes in Algeria is the Sontarac case and the issue of the caliph, in addition to the corruption cases raised after the protests by the people on 22 February 2019, in the framework of the so-called popular movement, one of his successes was the prosecution and accountability of a group of ministers headed by a head of government, a former first minister, other ministers and businessmen accused of corruption cases. s independence, where former ministers and businessmen were tried.