Today, Friday, August 6, 2021, the spokesperson for the Tunis Court of First Instance, Mohsen Daly, stated to “JDD Tunisie” that the Public Prosecution is aware of the “lobbying” contract concluded by Ennahda Movement with a lobbying company at the end of July, which was published on the official website of the US Department of Justice.
Daly added that the Public Prosecution is in the process of carrying out the necessary investigations to take what it deems appropriate, either by opening a new investigation or by including this contract in the current case related to the “lobbying” contract by Ennahda movement during the legislative elections in 2019.
It is noteworthy that Ennahda entered into a “lobbying” contract and was registered on July 29, 2021 in the US Department of Justice through the British BCW LLC office, and it was published on August 3, 2021, noting that this contract is worth $30,000, according to the published documents.
It is worth noting that a judicial investigation has been opened into three political parties, including Ennahda and Qalb Tounes, on suspicion of receiving funds from abroad during the 2019 election campaign.
The official spokesman for the Court of First Instance in Tunis, Mohsen Daly, said that “the investigative judge at the economic and financial judicial pole opened an investigation on charges of receiving external funding on July 14, 2021.
According to the final report of the Court of Accounts on the results of monitoring the financing of the premature presidential election campaign and the legislative elections of 2019, the Ennahda party contracted with the advertising and planning company BCW from September 2014 to 2018, and then a supplementary contract was concluded from July 16, 2019 to December 17, 2019, A sum of 187,215 thousand US dollars was paid.
