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| Mr Zine El Abidine Ben Al |
Tunisia
has recovered about $28.8m (£18.7m) of looted assets held abroad
by ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his family.
The
state news agency TAP said a cheque in that amount had been handed to
President Moncef Marzouki by Ali bin Fetais al-Marri, appointed by
the UN to head efforts to recover money from leaders overthrown in
Arab uprisings.
TAP
said the money returned to Tunisia had been in a Lebanese bank
account belonging to Laila Trabelsi, the wife of Ben Ali, who fled to
Saudi Arabia with his family on 14 January 2011 after popular
protests ended his 23-year rule.
Local
media say billions of dollars acquired corruptly by Ben Ali remain
unaccounted for.
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