This is how security dropped a “parallel administration” for issuing passports! – Al-Shorouk Online

Extracting biometric documents without the presence of their owners in exchange for millions
Pictures and conversations on WhatsApp and Viber reveal the threads of the case
The Hussein Dey Court decided the case and issued its rulings this Monday

From involvement in a terrorist group to forging passports… this is how members of an organized criminal network became involved in establishing a “parallel administration” whose threads were woven within the corridors of the “Biometric Department” in the municipality of Hussein Dey in Algiers, to obtain passports without the presence of people located outside the country, in exchange for sums of money ranging between 5 and 8 million centimes.
The case file will be decided by the Hussein Dey Court in the capital, Monday (today), September 14th, as it will issue its rulings against the defendants on heavy charges ranging from unlawfully obtaining travel documents with false certificates, exploiting monetary influence, offering and granting an undeserved advantage to a public employee, in addition to the misdemeanor of intentionally causing, as a result of failure to observe applicable laws, regulations, or security rules, the destruction of documents, bonds, or contracts placed under his control by virtue of or because of his position.

This is how the documents were delivered and the money was collected
The facts of the case file were initiated by the investigation initiated by the regional services of judicial investigation of the state of Algiers, against the suspect, “T. Abdelkader,” who was placed in temporary detention in the Re-Education and Rehabilitation Institution in Kollia by the investigating judge of the fourth chamber of the Casablanca Court, on October 29, 2025, on charges of felony involvement in a terrorist group active outside the country, the felony of traveling to a foreign country for the purpose of committing terrorist acts, planning them, preparing for them, participating in them, or training. He received training on it, as it was found that the suspect obtained a passport and identification card issued by the Hussein Dey municipality while he was outside the country in exchange for a sum of money.
Accordingly, the Public Prosecutor at the Casablanca Court was notified of these facts, which may constitute an incidental crime, and in accordance with a parliamentary instruction issued by the Public Prosecutor at the Hussein Dey Court regarding the opening of a preliminary investigation regarding the facts of the accused “T.A.” obtaining a passport and an identification card from the Hussein Dey municipal departments, along with receiving the procedures file from the Independent Division of the Judicial Police in Kobba, so that the suspect “T.Ratiba” was summoned for the purpose of investigation with her, regarding the current case, and it was found that she was involved in committing a crime. Abuse of position, then it is decided to place it under suspension for consideration.
During the statements she made to the investigation, it was revealed that a number of female municipal employees were involved in committing the crime of abuse of office, while the witness, A. Kenza, in her capacity as head of the Biometric Documents Department, confirmed that a biometric passport had indeed been issued on November 28, 2024 by the administrative departments of the Hussein Dey municipality in favor of the so-called “T. Abdul Qader,” born in 1987. She also explained that according to the electronic application data, the person concerned was in possession of a passport. Biometrics and renew it by declaring the loss, and with regard to the passport renewal file, the biometric file for the accused was created at the level of its departments, and the one who audited the file was the suspected employee, “T. Ratiba,” who is still carrying out her work in the same department.
The witness added that the stages of processing the file include initially monitoring the file and then checking it by comparing the data recorded on the electronic window with the information recorded on the file, then confirming it and printing the deposit receipt in two copies, the first is delivered to the person concerned and the second is included with the file after the person concerned signs it. After the issuance of the passport, the person responsible for receiving the secured documents of the municipality of Hussein Dey moves to the administrative district of Hussein Dey in order to receive the secured documents. He then places each passport in his administrative file and upon completion of placing the files, he delivers The files were sent to the agent in charge of delivering the documents, “Sh. Karima”, who currently works at the Civil Status Department in the municipality of Hussein Dey, and that according to the electronic window, there is no indication of handing over the passport and the registration process was not recorded via the driver’s license, from the headquarters of the administrative department of Hussein Dey.
It also became clear, according to the witness, that the passport and basic file of the so-called “T. Abdel Qader” are not available in the biometric department and are not in the archives of the relevant department, and that the accused’s passport did not pass the previously mentioned delivery stages, which are registration by fingerprint or by referring to a confirmation from the head of the biometric documents department.
During the investigation with the accused, “T. Ratiba,” she stated that during the year 2022, a woman named Najia, who owned a black “Ibiza” car, hailing from Sharba (Cultius), approached her in order to extract biometric documents for the benefit of her family members. She asked her for her phone number and they began exchanging communications. After her relations with the so-called Najia became stronger, she began asking her to help her extract biometric documents for her acquaintances, and she had previously done so. I sent her a group of files for people who are outside the country, illegally, for the purpose of extracting their identification documents. This is in exchange for various amounts of money, up to 50 thousand Algerian dinars.
The accused also stated that during the year 2024, the so-called Najia contacted her and told her about a person called “T. Tibi Abdel Qader,” who is outside the country illegally, and she wanted to carry out the procedures for obtaining his passport, and enable her to obtain it when it is issued, and this in exchange for a sum of money estimated at 50 thousand Algerian dinars, so she asked the so-called Najia to bring the file related to the latter, and visit her at her work office, where she met her near the headquarters of the municipality of Hussein. When riding with her, she handed her the file consisting of the tax voucher, two photographs, and the amount of fifty thousand Algerian dinars agreed upon in advance, after which they separated. Then she went to the biometric service in Hussein Dey, and began the registration process and entered the information of “T. Abdel Qader,” and during the process of filling out his data, she declared that the concerned passport was subject to a loss declaration, and she used her previous phone number, in order to complete the stages of filling out the data, and the invited person, Najia, asked her not to include her number. Dial the passport form and dispose of the base file.
The accused also admitted that the so-called “Najiya” had mediated to obtain passports for people outside the homeland, “that is, without the presence of those concerned,” in exchange for various sums of money.
On the other hand, the third defendant in the case file called “B. Iman,” who was appointed to work in the biometric documents delivery office and whose duties include delivering the biometric documents that were extracted and enabling the recipient to put his own fingerprint on the fingerprint scanner, admitted that she mediated for one of the people present in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, in order to obtain a passport for someone he knew by depositing a file to renew it after the expiration of its validity period, in exchange for a sum of money amounting to 50,000 DZD. She also stated that she had obtained 5 passports for people who were abroad without their presence. This is considered a violation of the law. This is in collusion with her friend “Ratiba”, with whom she shares the spoils.
Investigations also found that the accused received an amount of 80 thousand dinars, and this was in the last two passports that she obtained for the so-called “B. Abbas.” She stated that she did not remember the names of the people for whom they had obtained passports, because she did not know them and had no interest in them, as she was providing her services to the suspect, Ben Safia Abbas, in exchange for sums of money.

Pictures and calls… confrontations with electronic evidence
To complete the investigation, the regional judicial investigation services of the state of Algiers confronted the defendants with the results of the electronic inspection of their mobile phones, as it was proven that they were involved in many processes of preparing, extracting, and delivering biometric documents in ways that violate the law, without those concerned appearing before their department and subjecting them to the necessary administrative procedures, among them the so-called Issam. The latter was seeking to obtain his passport, which had previously been rejected for reasons unknown to her, so she obtained his passport and delivered it to him in exchange for a sum of 2,000 Algerian dinars, and 20,000 Algerian dinars in exchange for a biometric identification card that she delivered to the accused’s brother.
The accused also admitted, during her interrogation, that she had communicated with the accused, “Q. Issam,” via the “Viber” application, regarding his passport file, which he included in his file for obtaining the national ID card, as well as receiving it from his brother, who gave her an amount of 10,000 Algerian dinars, and gave sums of money to the rest of the employees.
In addition, the security services, during the search of the accused’s mobile phone, found electronic evidence represented in audio conversations that she collected with the so-called “Q. Essam”, accompanied by pictures of passports and biometric cards. The conversations also included details about “the secretariat”, and the accused’s protest against receiving half the amount, before she thanked him and promised to return the favor, which is data that the investigations considered as evidence of her receiving an undeserved advantage and exploiting her influence, in addition to the influence of the accused. “Ratiba”, responsible for reserving passport information.
According to what the investigations revealed, the purpose of this was to illegally extract and deliver passports and biometric identity cards for the benefit of people, in exchange for sums of money, which would enable their owners to move to the European countries to which they had immigrated, in exchange for an amount of 50,000 DZD, which she shared with the accused, “T. Ratiba,” who was charged with withholding passport information.
Field investigations also resulted in the recovery of a number of phones and SIM cards, as well as conversations via WhatsApp between a number of defendants that revealed the methods of delivering passports and biometric cards, as well as how the agreed-upon funds were received.
Conversations through the same application between the accused “B. Iman” and the accused “B. Abbas” also showed a dialogue about renewing the latter’s passport and agreeing on the financial compensation, in addition to finding pictures of the passports of “B. Abdel Nour” and “A. Saif El-Din.”
One of the conversations also included the accused, “B. Iman,” sending a picture of a conversation she had with a person, during which he asked her how to send money and the value of the return that he could pay, to which the accused responded that the passport holder was a person residing in France and had no problems, before the account holder set the corresponding amount of 80,000 Algerian dinars, and according to the conversation recovered by the security services, the person in question replied that she would take 4 million centimes, provided that she would give the account holder the same amount, which was met with approval.

Amounts of up to 10 million cents in exchange for a passport
In addition, the file included a conversation between the accused, “B. Iman,” and the account holder, which, according to investigations, belonged to the accused, “T. Ratiba,” centered around how to obtain passports and the financial compensation collected from the file owners. According to the content of the recovered conversation, the financial compensation ranged between 8 million and 10 million centimes, with an agreement to divide the collected amount equally between the two parties.
In a subsequent conversation, I informed her that the passport was ready, asking her to prepare the “secretariat,” before setting its value at 10 million centimes, while insisting on paying the full amount in exchange for handing over the passport to its owner.
Among the documents found was a photo of the passport of the person named “B. Abdel Nour,” along with the national identification number, which is the data that the security services included in the digital evidence and evidence that was seized as part of the investigation into the case.