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Tunisia appeals court blocks anti-graft body
TUNIS — An appeals court in Tunis has upheld a ban on the work of an official commission set up to investigate corruption and embezzlement, Tunisian media reported Friday.
The court on Thursday rejected an appeal by the commission, which was set up in the wake of the fall of the regime of president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali last January, according to the daily Al-Chourouk.
The ruling followed a plea to a lower court filed by a group of 10 lawyers who on February 28 successfully asked for the activities of the commission to be halted on the grounds that they were “unconstitutional”.
The commission must cease work while awaiting a final court ruling on March 22, state television reported, and the panel must also hand over documents it has collected to the state prosecutor.
The commission was set up on February 18 to probe corruption and abuse of power during the 23 years of rule by Ben Ali, who was toppled by a popular uprising in the north African country on January 14.
Commission president Abdelfattah Amor told a press conference Wednesday that the panel had received 4,239 requests to probe corruption and embezzlement and that it had studied 519 cases, “in particular those of the ousted president, his wife, their families, and officials close to them and their friends.”
Apart from the commission headed by Amor, two other commissions have been set up by the interim Tunisian authorities.
One is a panel tasked with achieving the goals of the revolution, such as political reform and a transition to democracy, headed by Yadh Ben Achour, and the other is a national commission on establishing the facts behind abuse of power, headed by Taoufic Bouderbala.
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