{"id":40036,"date":"2019-07-08T23:23:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40036"},"modified":"2019-07-08T23:23:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T23:23:00","slug":"tunisia-presidential-candidate-charged-with-money-laundering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40036","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia presidential candidate charged with money laundering"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1522736\/middle-east\" readability=\"47\">\n<p>\nTUNIS: Tunisian media magnate and would-be presidential candidate Nabil Karoui has been charged with money laundering, had his assets frozen and slapped with a travel ban, a judicial source said Monday.<br \/>Karoui and his brother, Ghazi Karoui, have been under investigation since 2017 after anti-corruption watchdog I-Watch submitted a dossier accusing him of tax fraud, said Sofiene Sliti, spokesman for the judiciary department for financial cases.<br \/>\u201cAfter an inquiry into the complaint filed by I-Watch and having summoned and heard the two men&#8230; the judge decided 10 days ago to charge Nabil Karoui and Ghazi Karoui with money laundering,\u201d he told AFP.<br \/>The judge also decided to freeze their assets and ban them from traveling abroad.<br \/>The brothers in 2002 launched Karoui &#038; Karoui, an international media and advertising company.<br \/>Nabil Karoui was an active supporter of President Beji Caid Essebsi\u2019s election in 2014 but has become a fierce opponent of Prime Minister Youssef Chahed.<br \/>In May, Karoui, who has also founded a major private television channel, Nessma, said he would run for the presidency in November polls to succeed Essebsi.<br \/>But amendments to the electoral law passed the following month would rule out his candidacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUNIS: Tunisian media magnate and would-be presidential candidate Nabil Karoui has been charged with money laundering, had his assets frozen and slapped with a travel ban, a judicial source said Monday.Karoui and his brother, Ghazi Karoui, have been under investigation since 2017 after anti-corruption watchdog I-Watch submitted a dossier accusing him of tax fraud, said&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}