DRUG TRAFFICKER ZENDJABIL ABDELKDER JAILED IN SAIDA

Zendjabil Abdelkader, drug trafficking baron is imprisoned at a
jail in Saida province, southern Algeria; he has been sentenced to 20
years, after a sentence issued against him in absentia following the
13 hundredweight of cannabis seized in the western borders, a source
within National Gendarmerie Command, indicated, adding that his
brother, Mr. Ahmed Zendjabil is on the run.

The defendant has been arrested by the Gendarmerie brigade at Hassi
Mameche municipality in Mostaganem province last week. He was on the
run after the magistrate of Bougteb court, El Bayedh province,
southern Algeria, issued a warrant of arrest against him, at the same
time his brother, Ahmed Zendjabil, the famous drug traffickers
countrywide, still on the run altogether with Laraba Ziane Abdelkader,
nicknamed Pascal, who is considered as the mastermind of Zendjabil's
drug trafficking. "Zendjabil is not a nickname for hiding the
trafficker's identity but it is the true name of the brothers" said
the same source.