Sousse: The Sousse court of Appeal has referred the ‘Instalingo” case to the Criminal Chamber of the Sousse Court of First Instance to set a date for public hearings, court spokesman Hedi khassib told TAP on Wednesday.
The Court of Appeal referred the case file received Wednesday, after the Court of Cassation, on Tuesday, rejected all the appeals filed by the defence of the defendants against the previous decision of the indictment chamber of the Sousse Court of Appeal. The latter had ruled since July 20, 2023, to refer the case file to the Criminal Chamber in Sousse and to maintain the charges against all the defendqnts in this case.
Deputy prosecutor at the Sousse Court of Appeal, Ridha Belhaj Amor told TAP on July 21 that the Court of Appeal had decided to refer 41 defendants in the “Instalingo” case to the Criminal Chamber of the Sousse Court of First Instance.
He added that “among them, 14 defendants were detained and the rest were either at liberty or had fled”.
He explained that the appeals court h
ad issued a number of charges against those involved in the case, including “attempting to undermine state security externally, attempting to change the form of the government, inciting people to attack each other and insulting the head of state”.
He added that they also faced charges of “money laundering for 27 defendants”, “illicit enrichment for three defendants”, “making profits abroad without a licence from the Central Bank for two defendants” and “engaging in debt swapping and trading between residents and non-residents without a licence from the Central Bank for three defendants”.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse