Tunisia's state coffers are missing 1.5 tonnes of gold. The ousted president and his wife had collected the ingots before fleeing the country.According to French intelligence cited by French daily Le Monde, Ben Ali's wife Leila Trabelsi (pic) had gone to the bank to withdraw the gold. The governor initially resisted, but backed down under pressure from Ben Ali himself.
4 comments:
There are some people whose greed simply cannot be sated.
Anon.
Anon, What can the wife of an exiled dictator buy with only 60 million dollars worth of gold? The bare necessities. Life is very expensive in exile.
Yes. We must all shed a little tear.
Anon.
All dictators should have a small reserve fund in case of, umm, "contingencies."
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