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Kais Saied reopens issue of ill-gotten gains under Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali

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By appointing new heads to the state litigation department and the CNCP commission, the president is putting a highly symbolic issue back on the table: recovering the assets misappropriated before the fall of the former leader in 2011.

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