... Like all dictators supported by the West, Ben Ali and his clan were of course greatly enriched. Asked by Liberation on January 18, lawyer William Bourdon organization Sherpa, who has already shown in a complaint about ill-gotten gains of three African leaders, said that Ben Ali had the day before, January 17, drained accounts in Switzerland, which "actually raises questions about the attitude of these banks (1).." Indeed, in so doing, they show themselves complicit and should be punished for complicity in a time when Switzerland says he does not want to be pointed at as the country holding the concealment of assets and recycling fraudulent or criminal ... On 17 January, the Arab Commission for Human Rights, Transparency and Sherpa International France filed a complaint with the prosecutor of Paris against various members of the family Ben Ali concerning assets held in France. The following week these three organizations issued a press release until the prosecutor to address the judge of freedoms and detention, as soon as possible, a motion requesting the freezing of assets, as the law permits since July 2010 (2). Indeed, only a quick freeze of assets would prevent their evaporation to non-cooperative jurisdictions. What happened with the Swiss banks shows the urgency of such a procedure. The family of Ben Ali's wife, family Trabelsi, hold, turn, multi-million euro French bank accounts, apartments and properties in Paris and the Paris region, a chalet in Courchevel and properties on Côte d'Azur (3). This applies only France, yet it is very probable that the clan Ben Ali has holdings in other country and certainly in tax havens. According to one diplomatic source, the European Union (EU) Thursday, January 20 then acknowledged the principle of a freeze of assets of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his relatives. Having endorsed Ben Ali for a long time by closing their eyes to his regime (4), the Western media do not hesitate to speak of dictatorship and corrupt regime but so far no one hears talk of mischief. Yet it can not be corruption without corrupting. The Tunisian government is again cleared of all members of the former regime could take proceedings even in Tunisia, while calling collaboration with foreign states that funds were misappropriated. All these procedures should not be undertaken by the current interim government that has no legitimacy, otherwise we return the money the thief to the thief's accomplices who appointed himself during his reign. We'll see if the French law of 9 July 2010 to speed really matters. This, too, using the UN Convention against Corruption called Merida Convention (5) entered into force December 14, 2005. On 1 January 2009, it had been signed by 140 countries and ratified by 129 (6) ...
By Virginia Romanet coordinator of the Committee for the Cancellation of Third World Debt (CADTM Brussels) virginie@cadtm.org (Title proposed by Epicentre)
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(1) http://www. liberation.fr/monde/0101 (2) Law No. 2010-768 of 9 July 2010 to facilitate seizure and confiscation in criminal matters published in OJ No. 158 of 10 July 2010 (3) "Small business very profitable Trabelsi clan," Le Figaro, 17/01/11, quoted in the press release of the Transparency International http://www.transparency.org/news_r (15) On 1 January 2008, Tunisia was the first country on the southern shore of the Mediterranean have joined the free trade zone with the European Union (16) We can especially mention the following two articles: Article 51: General Provisions 1. "The return of assets pursuant to this chapter is a fundamental principle of this Convention, States Parties shall afford one another the cooperation and assistance the most extensive in this regard. "Article 43 International cooperation 1. "States Parties shall cooperate in criminal matters in accordance with Articles 44 to 50 of this Convention. Where appropriate and consistent with their domestic legal system, States Parties shall consider assisting each other in investigations and proceedings in civil cases and administrative provisions relating to corruption. " (6) "ill-gotten acquired. Who benefits? "CCFD, June 2009.
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