After the Minister of Justice, Leila Jaffel, ordered, by order, to initiate legal proceedings against the president of UTAP, Abdelmajid Zar, for “monopoly, characterized breach of trust and embezzlement of public funds”
Tunisian justice has opened an investigation against the president of the Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fisheries (UTAP / independent) Abdelmajid Zar, for “monopoly, characterized breach of trust and embezzlement of public funds”.
This is what emerges from statements made by the spokesperson for the Tunis Court of Appeal, Habib Torkhani, given on Saturday to the Tunis Afrique Presse Agency (TAP/official).
“The public prosecutor at the Tunis Court of Appeal gave his instructions, yesterday Friday, to the public prosecutor at the Tunis court of first instance to open an investigation against the President of the Union Tunisian Agriculture and Fisheries (UTAP), Abdelmajid Zar, and all those who will be revealed by the investigation, and this, to answer for monopoly offenses, characterized breach of trust and embezzlement of public funds”, Torkhani told TAP, without giving details of the offenses.
And the spokesperson for the court specified that this judicial measure “intervenes by order of the Minister of Justice, Leila Jaffel, dated January 28, 2022, in accordance with the provisions of article 23 of the Code of Criminal Procedure”.
The aforementioned article provides that “The Secretary of State for Justice may denounce to the Attorney General of the Republic any offenses against the criminal law of which he is aware, enjoin him to institute or have instituted proceedings or to seize the court jurisdiction of such written requisitions as it deems appropriate”.
Created in 1949, the Tunisian Union of Agriculture and Fisheries is a union structure that defends professionals in the agricultural sector.
Tunisia has been in the throes of an acute political crisis since July 25. On that date, the President of the Republic, Kaïs Saïed, had taken a series of exceptional measures, notably suspending the work of Parliament and lifting the immunity enjoyed by deputies.
He had also suspended the Authority for the control of the constitutionality of laws and decided to legislate by way of decrees, just as he dismissed from his post the head of government, Hichem Mechichi, thus taking the head of the executive, assisted by a government whose head he appointed in the person of the academic Najla Bouden Romdhane.
