Today, Wednesday, June 9, the head of “qalb Tounes ” party, Nabil Karoui, was transferred from his shelter at Abderrahmane Mami Hospital in Ariana to the headquarters of the civil prison in Mornaguia, after undergoing the necessary treatments due to the deterioration of his health.
It is worth noting that Karoui had decided, on Monday, to sit-in in the office of the investigative judge in the Financial Judicial Pole, in protest against the decision to extend his detention for an additional four months, starting from May 5.
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Since last Saturday, Nabil Karoui has gone on a hunger strike in protest of his continued illegal detention after exceeding the legal period of precautionary detention.
On Monday, June 7, the investigative judge at the Financial Judicial Pole decided to extend the detention of Nabil Karoui in a precautionary manner.
Nabil al-Qarawi’s lawyer, Bishr Chebbi, stated in a previous statement to “JDD tunisie”, that his representative had refused to sign and accept the decision to extend his detention in a precautionary manner.
Lawyer Chebbi also confirmed that his client is in an illegal detention situation, calling for looking into the comment file instead of returning it to the investigation.
A number of Qalb Tounes deputies, such as First Deputy Speaker of Parliament Samira Chaouachi, head of the bloc Oussama Khelifi, and recently resigned MP Ayad Loumi joined the office of the investigative judge in the economic and financial pole to support Nabil Karoui.
Karoui is being tried in the case of tax evasion and money laundering, which was filed against him by the “I Watch” organization in 2016, after the investigative judge at the Financial Judicial Pole issued on December 24, 2020, an arrest warrant against the head of the Heart of Tunisia party, Nabil Karoui, on suspicion of financial corruption.
