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Tunisia: 300 custom officers to appear before accountability court

Tunisia’s General Directorate of Customs has ordered 300 custom officers to appear before a disciplinary council for “corruption” and other bribery charges,” the spokesman of the General Directorate of Customs, Colonel Major Haythem Zied said. The situation in the North African nation is becoming rampant in recent years. Throughout 2016, Tunisia’s Anti-Corruption Commission, an independent […]

Libya drags Goldman Sachs to court

A suit has been filed against Goldman Sachs in London’s high court, by Libya’s sovereign investment fund, for making a profit of $350 million from the creation of $1 billion in derivatives trades that became valueless. With the Libyan Investment Authority, a sovereign fund, seeking losses from the trade, a spokesman for Goldman Sachs said […]

Turkey: Authorities blame ISIL for Ankara twin attacks

Turkish security authorities said Sunday first indications of the investigations suggest that ISIL was behind the deadly twin bomb-blasts that disrupted a peaceful demonstration in the Turkish capital on Saturday. Initial signs suggested ISIL was behind the attack which bore a striking similarity to a July suicide bombing in Suruç near the Syrian border, also […]