Date: Apr 24, 2019 Source: The Daily Star Algeria's richest man held in jail in graft probe Thousands of students take to streets for fresh protests Agence France Presse ALGIERS: Algeria's richest man Issad Rebrab has been moved to jail on the public prosecutor's orders, state media reported Tuesday a day after his arrest as part of a corruption probe. Rebrab, the chief executive of Algeria's biggest privately-owned conglomerate Cevital, was placed in detention overnight according to the APS news agency. Thousands of students take to streets for fresh protests Thousands of Algerian students marched Tuesday through the capital calling for the overthrow of the "system" and trials for members of ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika's inner circle. Students chanting "out with the government" gathered outside the iconic post office in the heart of Algiers as they have every week since the Bouteflika stepped down on April 2 in the face of mass protests against his 20-year rule. The police dialed down the security presence at the site after deploying en masse last Tuesday to prevent protesters from reaching what has become the emblematic point of rallies since anti-government demonstrations first erupted in February. "Either it's us, or it's you. Out with the government!" chanted students, many of them draped in Algeria's national flag. Architecture and civil engineering students wearing white and yellow construction helmets held banners aloft reading "Let's build a new Algeria." Algerians are demanding a complete overhaul of the political system in the North African country, including the ouster of an interim government set up in the wake of Bouteflika's fall. They are demanding that regime stalwarts be excluded from any political transition in the country, where presidential elections are due to take place on July 4 according to acting president Abdel-Kader Bensalah. "We demand the departure of the entire gang that inherited Bouteflika's reign, headed by Bensalah and [Prime Minster] Noureddine Bedoui," said Hamza, a third-year civil engineering student at the University of Blida south of the capital. "We want a new system that is committed to fighting the corruption that has plagued the country," said Hamid, a finance student in Algiers.