المضاربة غير المشروعة في التشريع الجزائري: دراسة على ضوء القانون رقم 21-15 المتعلق بمكافحة المضاربة غير المشروعة

Abstract EN

Illegal speculation is considered among the illegal and unfair commercial practices which harm the national economy and the stability of the markets on the one hand, and on the other hand the consumer and his fundamental interests and his purchasing power, which led the Algerian legislator to intervene to deal with it by criminalizing this behavior and providing for sanctions a means of deterrence, for anyone attempting to commit this crime criminal and several new mechanisms, through law no.

21 / 15 relating to the fight against illegal speculation ..

the penalties varied between fines and custodial sentences, and the penalties were severe compared to what was previously provided for by the penal code before its cancellation articles 172, 173, 174 of ordinance no.

66-156 establishing the code amended and supplemented criminal law, which provided for illegal speculation, particularly in the context of this act was committed in exceptional circumstances, such as disease-COVID-19 or disasters, and thus the scarcity relates to raw materials such as oil, milk, semolina and others, derived from foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals and energy as specified in the provisions of the law on illegal speculation, and the penalty in this case reaches life imprisonment by qualifying these acts as crimes.