Mohammed Benchicou

Mohammed Benchicou: Mohammed Boualem Benchicou (Arabic: محمد بنشيكو‎) (born 1952 in Miliana, Aïn Defla Province) was the director of the Algerian newspaper Le Matin.^[1]

In June 2004, he was sentenced to two years in prison for an infraction in money exchange regulation. In July, SIMPRAL, the Algiers-based government publisher, stopped printing Le Matin for its failure to pay a debt of 38 million dinars ($535,200)^[2]

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^ On August 23, 2003, border police at Algiers airport searched Benchicou’s baggage in his presence and found certificates issued by a bank in Algeria and valued at 11.7 million Algerian dinars (U.S.$127,000)

^ http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/hralgeria04.html

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Place of birth Miliana, Aïn Defla Province

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