Tunisia’s former president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, toppled by a popular revolt in 2011, is ready to hand over his Swiss-held financial “assets” to the Tunisian state, his Lebanese lawyer said on Monday.
“My client is ready to hand over all his alleged assets and economic resources held in Switzerland to the Tunisian state,” lawyer Akram Azoury said in a draft statement to the Swiss ambassador in Lebanon, a copy of which was sent to AFP.
In the letter, which he plans to send to the Swiss foreign ministry, Azoury added: “You are authorized to transfer his alleged assets and economic resources to the Tunisian state, without any prior judicial or extra-judicial procedure, and without even referring to my client.”
At the end of June, a delegation of Tunisian experts met in Bern and Lausanne with a team of Swiss officials handling a case concerning the return of Ben Ali’s frozen assets, the Swiss government said last Tuesday.
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