The criminal chamber specializing in financial corruption affairs at the Tunis court of first instance sentenced, on Monday, in absentia, the former Minister of State Domains, Slim Ben Hmidane, to six years in prison.
He is prosecuted in a case linked to the dispute between the Tunisian state to a Tunisian businessman living abroad, in connection with the file of the Franco-Tunisian bank. The latter also received six years in ability in absentia.
In the same case, justice pronounced a sentence of six years in prison against a former adviser to the Ministry of State Domains, this time in his presence. A former state litigation officer was sentenced to three years in prison.
The specialized chamber has also decided to inflict financial fines against all defendants prosecuted in a state of freedom in this complex case combining high public functions and private interests around the BFT.
