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Paris, FRANCE: Picture taken 21 March 2007 of a closed Khalifa Airways agency in Paris as a verdict is due today on Algeria's biggest ever financial scandal after a 10-week trial revealing a system riddled with corruption and incompetence at the highest levels. Four years after the Khalifa Bank scandal broke, when hundreds of millions of dollars were found to be missing, precipitating the collapse of the business empire of the same name, 104 people including the former governor of Algeria's central bank stand accused. The main defendants face jail terms of up to 20 years. AFP PHOTO JACQUES DEMARTHON . AFP PHOTO/JACQUES DEMARTHON (Photo credit should read JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP/Getty Images)

Paris, FRANCE: Picture taken 21 March 2007 of a closed Khalifa Airways agency in Paris as a verdict is due today on Algeria's biggest ever financial scandal after a 10-week trial revealing a system riddled with corruption and incompetence at the highest levels. Four years after the Khalifa Bank scandal broke, when hundreds of millions of dollars were found to be missing, precipitating the collapse of the business empire of the same name, 104 people including the former governor of Algeria's central bank stand accused. The main defendants face jail terms of up to 20 years. AFP PHOTO JACQUES DEMARTHON . AFP PHOTO/JACQUES DEMARTHON (Photo credit should read JACQUES DEMARTHON/AFP/Getty Images)
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