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A Tunisian court Monday sentenced for money laundering popular French-Tunisian rapper, Iteb Zaibet, aka Rayan Sanches or Swagg Man, Webdo Tunis reports. The Criminal Chamber specialized in financial corruption cases also fined the 37-year old rapper $35,744. The court also ordered the transfer of $6.8 million to state treasury. The Nice-born rapper has been in […]
Morocco has been attacked by several international rights organizations demanding the release of a historian and rights activist who is in custody on money laundering charges. The government’s human rights inter-ministerial delegation reacted to the blatant interference in the independence of the Moroccan judiciary by organizations such as Amnesty by saying that human rights activists […]
A Tunisian court Thursday ordered the arrest of the leader of the Heart of Tunisia party, Nabil Karoui, accused of financial corruption and money laundering. The business tycoon and former presidential candidate was summoned to provide evidences of the source of over €43 million found in his account following an investigation into alleged money laundering […]
Egypt has requested Spain to hand over former contractor turned whistleblower Mohamed Ali wanted for tax evasion and money laundering. Self-exiled Ali, who has accused the regime of President Fattah al-Sisi of corruption and lavish lifestyles and who sparked widespread protests last September, appeared in court in Barcelona on July 9 to answer the Egyptian […]
Burkinabe former Minister of Defense, Jean-Claude Bouda, was arrested on Tuesday, May 26. He is charged in particular with “money laundering” and “illicit enrichment”. Jean-Claude Bouda, close to Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, appeared before court for a hearing following a complaint by the National Anti-Corruption Network. Minister of Youth (2016-2017) and then of Defense (2017-2018) […]
The European Union has removed Tunisia from its list of countries that pose threats to the financial system over money laundering and terrorism financing because of lack of legislation at home. The European Commission reviewed on Thursday the list of high-risk third countries with strategic deficiencies in their regime regarding anti-money laundering and countering terrorist […]
Tunisia’s electoral body, ISIE, has announced on the basis of article 27 of the constitution that Nabil Karoui will still run for the presidential elections despite his arrest Friday for money laundering. Forces from the interior ministry nabbed the candidate of Qalb Tounes (Heart of Tunisia) at Beja, in Beja governorate. The media mogul has […]
Morocco is tightening the noose on organized crime with the upcoming launch of a national strategy to fight money laundering as well as terrorism financing, head of the government Saad Dine El Otmani said. The strategy would facilitate a better coordination of actions between different departments, said El Otmani at a national conference on the […]
Security authorities in the Dominican Republic have deported a French national, boss of a network accused of laundering money coming from drug trafficking activities between Spain and Morocco. The French, Michel Pierre Vincent Loubet, had been arrested last week alongside four other Spanish nationals in the northern part of the Central American country. The operation […]
Deposed Sudanese President Omar Bashir will be questioned by the country’s prosecution for alleged terrorism financing and money laundering. Prosecutor General Al-Waleed Sayyed Ahmed ordered Bashir’s questioning in connection with terrorism financing and money laundering suspicions, state-run news agency SUNA reported on Thursday. Bashir has been held in prison for one month since the army […]