Algerian Customs Agents Seize Smuggled Goods
2004-10-26
Algerian customs officials seized on Monday (25 October) 35 trucks and 12 tractors declared by importers as blankets and textiles. The vehicles were imported from Marseille, France, more than two years ago and held in storage in Reghaia, Algiers. By using false names on a commercial register the importers are still unidentified. Customs officials also seized thousands of fireworks and 240,000 toy guns, stored for over a year in Oued Semar, Algiers. The importers are also unidentified in this case.(El Khabar)
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محمد Posted 2008-01-03
Honestly, corruption is widespread in the Algerian customs' services and this is from an eye witness. The opinion in the Bolchevic revolution that we liberated....and finally brighten the shoes and they will go with the
rabah smaili Posted 2008-01-15
I just love customs services but unfortunately I haven't studied. I greet every member of the customs or National Gendarmerie. I just know according to my ability, but I love customs.
نبيل Posted 2008-01-30
The Algerian customs officer works more than he earns. His salary is very low compared to other sectors.
ayache Posted 2008-11-16
My only wish is to become an officer in the customs services. It is a honourable profession and its men are hard-working.
حمزة Posted 2008-11-29
Increase our wages.
علي Posted 2009-01-09
In the name of God the most gracious the most merciful. Corruption is an infection. It should be fought by all means. Every briber or bribed should be sentenced to the severest sanctions. Customs officers are the most corrupt especially Ben H, M A, Ben A, H N, and F Q who are in the province of A T. When will they run away from God with their acts? God suffices me and he is the best protector. God just awaits them but He doesn’t forget. As to the good people, just be patient.
علي Posted 2009-01-09
I thank the general director of the customs for his great efforts. Long live the Algerian customs.
kader Posted 2009-05-11
Peace be upon the followers of this site. Our respects. It is true that corruption prevails at 80% in the administration of customs. However, why doesn’t the state take care of the custom officer like other custom officers in the simplest countries in the world such as the Congo? The customs officer in that country is like the president of the republic if we compare him to Algeria. My brothers, the state (mafia of the state) benefits from the situation in which the customs is intermingled. How can a customs officer in the rank of control officer who receives a monthly wage of 21.000.00 Algerian dinars and an agent in the rank of inspector control goods with a value of billions owned by businessmen which he wishes to see even in dreams from far away? How can a customs officer not be bribed in that case? Reply please.
لعروسي Posted 2009-08-10
What is certain in the beginning is followed by destruction. I know a person who works in the customs. All his children are sick. One is mentally-handicapped, one has diabetes… May God heal them. This is all caused by the acts of the father who provides for them with illegal money.
Ahmed Posted 2009-08-22
What efforts are you thanking the general director for? Indeed, corruption has always existed, even since 1962. Even if there was only a small number of corrupt customs officials belonging to the Oujda clan, they were still very corrupt. It is just (or more especially) that since the beginning of the 1980s this phenomenon has spread at a speed of 2000 kilometres per hour. The most corrupt are the central directors. They are the ones who, with the general directors, choose the inspectors, the regional directors and so on and so on. They find positions for all of the schemers the central director and general director chose, because the Chkara is going to end up at the latter’s home. So, whether it is a general director or those who precede him, they are all corrupt and not a single one of them offers any benefit to the customs officials. Chaib Cherif always talks about modernisation - every time he is in the press he does and when he goes on the radio, it silences and he does. And, every time it is about a new director general. So, for all this hype and deception, this has only amounted to a computer with a system that is always failing, such that it goes well with all of the failures that have been committed by the officers specialised in these failures. As for the officers who are suspended or who have been charged with something, it is not true that they are little people who are paying for something in place of the traffic barons or that they are honest people who have been used to scramble up everything. If you call out the customs officials by name, then there are hundreds of them that have gone rogue like this man, who the high-up Lebib crowned. It should be known that this man was one of the biggest billionaires before he was appointed to regional director. All the central directors, even those who are far out and who have never been charged with anything, are 95% corrupt.
فريدة-بجاية Posted 2009-10-18
We are eager to know how the customs exams are corrected. I have participated but I haven't passed the exam although I worked hard. This has affected me. Thank you.
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