{"id":12977,"date":"2022-12-14T20:57:46","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T20:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/?p=12977"},"modified":"2022-12-14T20:57:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T20:57:46","slug":"algeria-court-of-appeal-pronounces-judgment-in-the-sonatrach-1-criminal-proceedings-against-saipem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/algeria-court-of-appeal-pronounces-judgment-in-the-sonatrach-1-criminal-proceedings-against-saipem\/","title":{"rendered":"ALGERIA: Court of Appeal Pronounces Judgment in the Sonatrach 1 Criminal Proceedings against Saipem"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saipem has informs <\/span>that the Court of Appeal of Algiers has pronounced a judgment in the Sonatrach 1 criminal proceedings, against Saipem Contracting Alg\u00e9rie ongoing since 2010, in Algeria, in relation to the award of the GK3 contract in 2009. <\/span><\/p>\n

In this proceeding Saipem Contracting Alg\u00e9rie was accused of \u201cinflating the price on contracts awarded by a public company engaged in industrial and commercial activities, taking advantage of the authority or influence of representatives of said company\u201d<\/em>\u00a0which bears a criminal sanction under Algerian law.<\/span><\/p>\n

Specifically, today the Court of Appeal of Algiers, having accepted most of the Company’s defence arguments, rejected the claim for damages of the Algerian Treasury, confirming the rest of the first instance sentence. As a result of this decision, the same Court of Appeal also ordered to revoke the seizure of current accounts in the amount of 63.2 million Euro equivalent, referable to the proceedings in question.\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

It should be noted that the proceeding in the first instance concluded\u00a0<\/span>on February 2, 2016, when the Court of Algiers ordered Saipem Contracting Alg\u00e9rie to pay a fine of approximately 4 million Algerian dinars (corresponding to around 30,000 Euro).\u00a0<\/span>The ruling issued in the first instance was challenged before the Algerian Court of Cassation, which on July 17, 2019, had fully overruled the decision by the Court of Algiers dated February 2, 2016, thus the Court of Appeal of Algiers started the trial which ended today.<\/span><\/p>\n

It should be noted that the Italian judiciary authority – further to criminal proceedings in which also the process of award of the GK3 project in 2009 had been analysed \u2013 fully acquitted the company on December 14, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

Saipem Contracting Alg\u00e9rie has welcomed the ruling saying it will consider whether to challenge the decision of the Court of Appeal regarding the fine imposed before the Court of Cassation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Still concerning projects dating back to 2008, Saipem has also received a summons to appear, with other individuals and legal entities, before the Algerian Court in a new proceeding for the \u201cinflating the price on contracts awarded by a public company engaged in industrial and commercial activities, taking advantage of the authority or influence of representatives, to obtain advantageous prices compared to those normally charged, or to modify, to their advantage, the quality of the materials or services or the delivery or supply times. Trafficking in influence. Violation of laws and regulations concerning exchange and transfer of capital to and from abroad<\/em>\u201d.<\/em>\u00a0The company denies all charges and will actively participate in the proceedings to show it was not involved in the alleged facts, having always acted in accordance with the relevant regulatory framework.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Saipem has informs that the Court of Appeal of Algiers has pronounced a judgment in the Sonatrach 1 criminal proceedings, against Saipem Contracting Alg\u00e9rie ongoing since 2010, in Algeria, in … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":11311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7442,7446,11],"tags":[121,2876,10907,3232,2363],"class_list":["post-12977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-countries","category-north-africa","category-top-news","tag-algeria","tag-algiers","tag-court-of-appeal","tag-saipem","tag-sonatrach","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Saipem-12000.jpg?fit=768%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JWkQ-3nj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12137,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/algeria-eni-and-sonatrach-agree-to-increase-gas-supplies-through-transmed\/","url_meta":{"origin":12977,"position":0},"title":"ALGERIA: Eni and Sonatrach agree to increase gas supplies through Transmed","author":"","date":"April 11, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"In the presence of the Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and the Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, the President of Sonatrach, Toufik Hakkar, and the CEO of Eni, Claudio Descalzi signed today in Algiers an agreement that will allow Eni to increase the quantities of gas imported through the TransMed \/\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Countries"","block_context":{"text":"Countries","link":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/category\/countries\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Eni-Logo.jpg?fit=474%2C582&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2594,"url":"https:\/\/www.oilnewskenya.com\/index.php\/kenyan-president-algeria-foster-co-operation-two-countries\/","url_meta":{"origin":12977,"position":1},"title":"Kenyan President in Algeria to foster co-operation between the two countries","author":"","date":"February 24, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"President Uhuru Kenyatta is in Algeria in a move that will see various bilateral agreements signed as well as cooperation in various sectors including oil and gas with the oil rich North African nation. 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