Algerian court has jailed two former harbour-masters of the port of Algiers for criminal association and signing contracts in breach of the law, press reports said Thursday.
The two men, Bourouai Abdelhak and Ali Farrah, were respectively sentenced to six and four years in prison. They were also convicted of wrongfully distributing benefits.
In all, 10 people were accused in the case, of whom six were jailed and four were acquitted.
The verdict, against which defence lawyers said they would appeal, arose from the illegal practice of handing out contracts to private cargo handling firms to work inside the port.
Port managers had been operating in breach of regulations for a decade, according to the prosecution.
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