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TEHRAN, May 12 - France has released Belhassen Trabelsi, brother-in-law of ousted Tunisian president Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, on bail while it mulls a extradition request from Tunisia, sources said Sunday.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Lawyers Xavier Nogueras and Marcel Ceccaldi said they had obtained Trabelsi's conditional release "owing to procedural problems", confirming news initially announced by the Tunisian justice ministry.
Trabelsi, 56, who faced charges of organized money laundering and has paid 100,000 euros ($112,000) in bail, must remain in France and report regularly to a local police station, they added.
It was the second time that an appeals court in Aix-en-Provence, southeastern France, had ordered his release from a jail in Marseille.
The first time was on March 28, but before Trabelsi walked free, the Aix-en-Provence prosecutor arrested him again based on a February 2017 warrant issued by a Tunisian magistrate.
Tunisia's extradition request refers to a series of convictions in absentia and three 10-year sentences handed down between February 2017 and June 2018 for financial crimes.
Source: AFP
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