Tunisia's National Anti-Corruption Commission - an independent constitutional body - has asked the Attorney General to issue travel ban and freeze funds for suspects in the conflict of interest case against resigning Prime Minister Elias El-Fakhfakh.
The authority said in its weekly publication yesterday, Sunday, that it transmitted on Thursday to the public prosecutor a second report accompanied by a set of documents and supports, the subject of which is related to suspicions of conflicts of interest, financial and administrative corruption and tax evasion, on deals concluded by the state with a group of councils and companies in which traps have contributions.
She added that the second report - which is a continuation of the first report transmitted by the commission to the public prosecutor on July 10 - concluded in his conclusion containing the legal requests of the authority to request the issuance of judicial permission to prevent travel and freeze the funds of some of the suspects, given the existence of serious, strong and concerted evidence on Violating the law and committing acts that can be classified as corruption.
The commission did not specify the number of these suspects, or whether or not traps were among them.
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And last Monday, the commission announced that documents related to declaring gains and suspicions of conflicts of interest related to traps were referred to both the judiciary and Parliament Speaker Rashid Ghannouchi.
Since last February 27, the traps have headed a government coalition that includes: the Renaissance Movement (Islamic), the Democratic Movement (Social Democratic), the People's Movement (Nasserism), the Movement of Long Live Tunisia (liberal), and the National Reform Bloc (independent and liberal parties).
And Thursday, President Qais Saeed announced the acceptance of the resignation of the traps, and the start of consultations to assign a new figure to form a government, a day after the submission of a list in Parliament calling for the withdrawal of confidence from the traps government.
The resignation came in light of a crisis between the traps and the Renaissance movement, the largest parliamentary bloc, following the movement’s decision to start consultations to form a new government, after it considered that the suspicion of conflicts of interests that were chasing the prime minister had negatively affected the image of the ruling coalition.
Al-Fakhfakh attacked Al-Nahdha’s decision and criticized it, but he resigned after submitting the parliamentary petition, then sacked the movement’s ministers.