Ben Ali assets in Switzerland transferred to Tunisia central bank March 11, 2021 at 12:35 pm | Published in: Africa, Europe & Russia, News, Switzerland, Tunisia
Former President of Tunisia Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali speaks at the parliament in Tunis, on 12 November 2009 [AFP PHOTO/FETHI BELAID/ Getty] March 11, 2021 at 12:35 pm
Switzerland has transferred 3.5 million Tunisian dinars ($1.27 million) of assets associated with former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to the Tunisian central bank,
The presidency said: Following efforts aimed at recovering looted funds held abroad, the Tunisian Presidency informs that the Swiss Authorities have transferred 3.5 million TND of former President Ben Ali related assets to the Tunisian Central Bank.
March 10, 2021 at 9:32 am | Published in: Africa, News, Tunisia
Belhassen Trabelsi, brother-in-law of ousted Tunisian president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali arrives on June 19, 2019 at the Aix en Provence courthouse in France [BORIS HORVAT/AFP via Getty Images] March 10, 2021 at 9:32 am
A Tunisian court yesterday sentenced Sami Fehri, owner of the private
El Hiwar Ettounsi
TV, to eight years in prison, and handed Belhassen Trabelsi, the brother-in-law of former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, a ten-year term.
The ruling was issued by the Court of the Criminal Law Chamber that specialises in cases of financial misconduct, reported the private local radio
A Tunisian court has sentenced Belhassen Trabelsi, the brother-in-law of ousted President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, to ten years in jail for corruption, the state run news agency TAP reported on Tuesday.
A former military intelligence
chief, Ben Ali ruled Tunisia for 23 years, taking power when, as prime minister in 1987, he declared president-for-life Habib Bourguiba medically unfit to rule.
Ben Ali fled Tunisia with his wife, Leila, in January 2011 to Saudi Arabia, as his people rose up against his oppressive rule in a revolution that inspired other uprisings in the Middle East and led to a democratic transition at home.
A Tunisian court sentenced him in absentia
that year to 35 years in prison.
He died in exile in Saudi Arabia in September 2019 and was buried there.
Updated: March 9, 2021 09:13 PM
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