Within the framework of the fight against organized crime and thanks to the permanent vigilance of our units deployed along our national borders, National Gendarmerie services and Border Guards dismantled on 24th May 2021 at the level of the border area of Oued Bounaim, commune of Bab El Assa, daira of Maghnia, wilaya of Tlemcen in the 2nd Military Region, a criminal network made up of six (06) individuals in possession of enormous sums of money in national currency (banknotes of 1000 and 2000 Algerian dinars) amounting to four (04) billion and (108.5) million centimes, including a part in counterfeit notes estimated at three (03) billion and (93) million centimes, which they attempted to introduce and circulate with the complicity of Moroccan criminal networks.


      This operation of high quality carried out by People’s National Army units, is within the dynamic of the efforts aiming to defeat any attempt to finance and support subversive movements that attempt to undermine security and stability of the country, and to sow confusion and discord among the sons of the same people, as well as to commit acts of sabotage and to exhaust the resources of the national economy, in particular by flooding the national market with counterfeit banknotes.