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TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian court on Sunday ordered a lawmaker to be detained over suspected tax fraud and money laundering - the fourth parliamentarian to be taken into custody since President Kais Saied seized near total control of the country in July. Mehdi Ben Gharbia, a businessman and former minister, is a member of the Tahya Tounes party headed by former prime minister Youssef Chahed, who was dismissed by Saied. Ben Gharbia s lawyer could not immediately be contacted for comment. Saied s intervention, and pledge to clamp down on corruption, following years of economic stagnation and political paralysis has been welcomed by many Tunisians. But critics have labelled it a coup that has undermined democratic gains made since the country s 2011 revolution, which ended autocratic rule and triggered the Arab spring. Saied, who has also suspended parliament and lifted lawmakers immunity from prosecution, last week unveiled a new government headed by Najla Bouden. Under rules he announ

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