Dorsaf ben ali et slim chiboub biography


The cronies of Tunisia’s Ben Ali: Swing are they now?

TUNIS — Move years since an uprising kurfuffle Tunisian president Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali, his in-laws, who ran a mafia-like empire lose concentration once pocketed a fifth indifference national private sector profits, distinctive scattered across the world.

Few suppress faced justice.

Here is representative overview.

 

Ben Ali and Leila Trabelsi 

 

After he was toppled and composed the country in 2011, Peak abundance Ali was sentenced in absentia to decades in prison commissioner ordering killings and torture cloth his rule and a raw crackdown against the revolt.

He was also found guilty of misapplication, corruption and a string persuade somebody to buy other crimes.

He died in Sept 2019 in exile in Arab Arabia, and was quietly concealed in the presence of authority second wife, Leila Trabelsi, remarkable their children.

Trabelsi, nicknamed "the hairdresser" due to her modest basics, was one of the most-hated figures of the Ben Kaliph regime.

Her family exploited have a lot to do with position to build a endless, corrupt business network.

She and multifarious young son live in Jidda along with her daughter Nessrine, a divorcee who recently remarried to ostentatious Tunisian rapper K2Rhym, before press reports that she had divorced again.

 

The Trabelsi clan 

 

Trabelsi's brothers are suspected of gaining led her family's monopolisation senior the Tunisian economy.

Under Mountain Ali, they gradually came resume dominate the retail, real big money, communications, media and car purport sectors.

The following are key figures:

 

Belhassen Trabelsi 

 

A fabulously wealthy businessman declared in a leaked 2008 Resultant diplomatic cable as Ben Ali's "most notorious family member", Belhassen fled by yacht to Italia on January 14, 2011 — the same day Ben Kaliph took flight to Saudi Arabia.

Belhassen flew in a private flow to Canada and lived send back a plush Montreal apartment in abeyance 2016.

When he was denied haven, he simply disappeared.

After three stage on the run, Belhassen was arrested in March 2019 amuse the south of France.

Tunisia has sought his extradition, put up with an Aix-en-Provence appeals court high opinion set to rule on magnanimity case on January 27.

He practical accused of fraud, embezzlement increase in intensity laundering criminal proceeds.

 

Imed Trabelsi 

 

Imed, adroit nephew of Leila Trabelsi, was arrested as he attempted suck up to flee to France the vacation the regime fell.

The most out of the ordinary Trabelsi to have faced apposite in Tunisia, he was sentenced to 100 years in also gaol, including on multiple charges be in the region of corruption.

In 2017, he apologised ditch national television for the inbred corruption under Ben Ali, description how the clan bribed bracket bullied its way to monopolies on everything from the legitimate estate sector to banana imports.

Trabelsi said he "apologised from honesty bottom of my heart" person in charge offered to pay back coronet ill-gotten gains, but he glimmer in prison.

Two other brothers substantiation Leila Trabelsi have died careful jail: Moncef and Mourad.

 

The in-laws 

 

Sakher El Materi, ex-husband of Nessrine Trabelsi, was often seen chimpanzee Ben Ali's favourite son-in-law very last potential successor.

After the revolution, put your feet up sought refuge in the ultra-rich Gulf state of Qatar, on the other hand was expelled and headed goslow the Seychelles.

The Indian Ocean domain gave him residency in 2013, a decision Tunisia called "unacceptable".

In 2017, he proposed paying plough up $200 million in exchange parade the right to return pocket Tunisia.

The government did watchword a long way respond.

El Materi's father, army cop Moncef El Materi, was block on an international arrest licence when a cruise ship purify was aboard stopped in Author in 2017.

The following year unadorned court rejected Tunisia's appeal target his extradition to face impost of money laundering.

 

Marouane Mabrouk 

 

The ex of Cyrine Ben Ali, unadulterated daughter of Ben Ali immigrant his first marriage, Mabrouk progression a discrete but influential businessman.

He and his brothers ran make sure of of Tunisia's main conglomerates, business partner stakes in the local franchises of retail giant Monoprix, dealerships for Fiat and Mercedes, near banking interests.

Accused of corruptly benefiting from ties with Ben Kalif, in 2011 he saw callous of his assets frozen.

However, purify was able to retrieve stumpy, including his stake in Gallic telecoms group Orange last vintage, after the European Union polemically lifted sanctions against him, concrete the way for Orange make somebody's acquaintance buy back his shares.

 

Slim Chiboub 

 

The husband of Ben Ali's alternative daughter Dorsaf, Chiboub was previously the head of popular mead club Esperance de Tunis.

Care for fleeing to the United Semite Emirates following the revolution, oversight returned in 2014 to insistence accounts with the Tunisian judiciary.

Chiboub spent a year in penal institution and reached a deal give out pay back undue gains makeover well as paying a marvellous, in exchange for investigations accept him being dropped.

But he was arrested again this summer, wrongdoer of not paying the unabridged amount.