Algeria’s supreme court on Wednesday placed former industry Minister Youcef Yousfi in custody over alleged corruption, state television reported.

Yousfi became the latest senior official to be Detained in anti-graft investigations since protests erupted earlier this year demanding the prosecution of people seen by demonstrators as corrupt, as well as the removal of the long-ruling elite.

Protesters and the military forced President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign on April 2, ending his 20 years in power. But protests have continued to press demands for the departure of others in the old guard that has dominated the oil- and gas-exporting country since independence from France in 1962.

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