Algeria’s prosecutor said Tuesday that 45 people, including former Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia and senior officials connected to the case of the Algerian automobile tycoon Mahieddine Tahkout, are being investigated in corruption cases. The prosecutor announced that the Undersecretary at Sidi Amhamed Court in Algiers opened a judicial investigation against 45 people on suspicion of involvement in the case. The investigating judge decided to place 19 of the accused in provisional detention and conditionally release seven suspects. The 19 others under investigation remained free without restrictions. Tahkout, his son and two of his brothers, along with 38 civil servants and three business employees, are being prosecuted. The detainees are accused of money laundering, concealing the illicit transfer of goods obtained through corruption and squandering public funds. Separately, the military tribunal sentenced to death three officers of the dissolved Intelligence and Security Service in cases related to the disclosure of state secrets and communicating with foreign parties, reported the German news agency (dpa). Al-Jazair al-Youm news agency quoted a source close to the military establishment as saying that the first death sentence was issued against the former adviser to the head of foreign intelligence for disclosing state secrets. The second was against a lieutenant of the Information and Coding Service on charges of leaking information and communicating with foreign parties and the third was issued against the deputy head of foreign intelligence in the case of conspiracy against the state and the disclosure of secrets and communication with foreign parties. Meanwhile, Abdul Rahim Bouteflika, brother of former Algerian President Abdulaziz Bouteflika, was removed from his government post after 37 years of service. Abdul Rahim, known as Nasser, had been retired from his position as secretary-general of Ministry of Vocational Training and Employment, according to a source close to the Bouteflika family. Nasser personally submitted his resignation, saying it was related to the family’s current situation after his elder brother, Abdulaziz, resigned in April and the younger brother, Saeed, was imprisoned on charges of “harming the armys authority and plotting against state authority.” Abdelaziz Bouteflika stepped down from his post following weeks of popular protests against his decision to run for a fifth term in office. Zuhur, the younger sister, was also removed from her position as presidential adviser, which she occupied since 1999. The family, including the former president, are currently residing in their deceased mothers house in Algiers.