Tunisia jails tycoon Mabrouk for corruption
The Straits Times
TUNIS, March 3 - A Tunisian court on Tuesday jailed the country's richest businessman, Marouan Mabrouk, for corruption while giving prison terms to a former prime minister and several other former cabinet members over the handling of a separate case related to Mabrouk's frozen funds in Europe. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TUNIS, March 3 - A Tunisian court on Tuesday jailed the country's richest businessman, Marouan Mabrouk, for corruption while giving prison terms to a former prime minister and several other former cabinet members over the handling of a separate case related to Mabrouk's frozen funds in Europe.
Mabrouk, a son-in-law of Tunisia's former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was ousted in 2011, has been held in prison since late 2023.
Mabrouk is part of an influential family with business interests in trade, banking, communications and car dealerships. Mabrouk also controls a major supermarket chain and owns shares in BIAT Bank, French telecoms operator Orange and a biscuit company.
He is one of Ben Ali's few relatives who did not flee Tunisia after a revolution in 2011 that toppled Ben Ali.
Mabrouk, however, has faced criticism that he received support and protection from successive governments after 2011.
Mabrouk was charged with money laundering and stealing funds from state companies.
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