This Monday, the criminal chamber specialized in cases of financial corruption at the Tunis First Instance Court rejected the request for release of a businessman detained in connection with the so-called “Alicante real estate” case in Spain.
The chamber also fixed November 30 as the date for the first hearing of the trial.
The case concerns several other defendants, including two lawyers. It concerns, in particular, the acquisition of real estate abroad and the execution of financial and commercial transactions outside Tunisian territory in violation of the applicable regulations.
The defendants are prosecuted for money laundering by taking advantage of the specificities related to their professional activity, the accumulation of wealth abroad, opening foreign bank accounts without authorization from the Central Bank of Tunisia (BCT), complicity in these offenses, use of allowances for business trips for purposes other than those provided, as well as the export of prohibited goods without declaration.
