The economic and financial penal pole of Sidi M'hamed has delivered harsh verdicts regarding the corruption case involving the Algerian Football Federation (FAF). The trial involved 19 defendants. Former FAF presidents Kheireddine Zetchi and Charaf-Eddine Amara were sentenced to 8 years in prison and fined one million Algerian dinars. Djahid Zefizef was sentenced to 6 years in prison with a similar fine. Other former officials, including former secretaries-general, the former administrative director, and executive board members, received sentences ranging from 3 years of imprisonment to acquittal for some of the accused individuals.