The businessman Nabil Karoui, one of Tunisia's leading presidential candidates, was arrested on Friday (August 23rd) in the north-west of the country, his party, Qalb Tounes, and Nessma TV, announced. , which he owns. This arrest comes a month and a half after he was charged with money laundering.
"Fifteen police cars blocked the road and rushed to Nabil Karoui's car before armed civilian police asked him to come with them saying they had instructions to stop him," he told reporters. AFP Osama Khlifi, a party leader. For now, no official source has confirmed his arrest.
Earlier in the day, its television channel, Nessma TV, one of the country's main, had been banned from covering the election campaign by the authorities responsible for the control of audio-visual and elections (Haica).
Haica accuses Nessma TV in particular of "positioning itself in order to influence the organs of the State". She had seized in April the equipment of the chain.
A warrant of arrest was issued against Nabil Karoui and his brother Ghazi for "money laundering," said Friday private radio Mosaïque FM citing a judicial source.
Nabil Karoui and his brother Ghazi Karoui are targeted by a judicial investigation of the financial pole since 2017, after the filing by the anti-corruption NGO I-Watch of a file accusing him of tax fraud.
With AFP