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Tunisia set to question Tahar Latrous and Maersk execs in exchange controls probe

The Tunisian judiciary is preparing to question a number of current and former Maersk executives suspected of having helped a client, businessman Tahar Latrous, take foreign currency out of the country in contravention of exchange controls. [...] (482 words)

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TUNISIA
Ali Yazidi
Anouar Maarouf
Ben Ayed
Ennahda
Farida Labidi
Fethi Jebnouni
Hamadi Latrous
Industries mécaniques du Maghreb
Isuzu
Kaïs Saïed
Maersk
Maersk Tunisie
Mahmoud Bouziri
Moez Chakchouk
OMMP
Rached Ghannouchi
Ruben Moratinos
SØIK
Star Container
Tahar Latrous
Yassine Ayari
Zied Boukhris

MPs critical of Kais Saied take flight

While parliamentary activities are suspended, some Tunisian MPs have been able to travel abroad in recent days. Others seem to have left the country before the president's 25 July power grab. [...]

TUNISIA 09/07/2021

Moez Chakchouk takes charge at the port of Radès to ensure it gets $330m in US aid

Foued Othman, adviser to transport minister Moez Chakchouk, is to move to the ports and merchant marine office. His job will be to ensure that the partial privatisation planned for the port of Rades is carried out, enabling it to receive a $330m grant from the US's Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). [...]

Tunisia's transport minister Moez Chakchouk. © Jdidi Wassim/SOPA Images/Sipa via Reuters Connect

TUNISIA 27/04/2021

Government cybersecurity advisor branches out on his own with DefensyLab

Ahmed Chabchoub, the government's former cybersecurity advisor, has launched a firm called DefensyLab that offers consulting and cybersecurity software engineering services as well as offensive penetration testing. [...]

TUNISIA 28/10/2020

MP Yassine Ayari and tax authority hound Maersk

As it tries to hold on to its Radès port concessions, the largest shipping company Maersk is feeling the heat from the local authorities. [...]

View of containers at a loading terminal in the port of Radès in Tunis. © Reuters

TUNISIA 27/05/2020

UTICA and UGTT united against Ennahda and Maersk at Port of Radès

The employers' association and union have created a common front against the Islamist transport minister Anouar Maârouf, who they suspect is willing to place container quays in the hands of the world shipping leader Maersk. [...]

TUNISIA 18/05/2020

Shipping: new ports chief Mahmoud Bouziri seeks legal resolution for Maersk, his former employer

The new head of Tunisia's ports and merchant navy, Mahmoud Bouziri, who used to work for Maersk, hopes to sort out legal problems over Radès port concessions facing the Danish giant's subsidiary, Star Container. [...]

The port of Radès, Tunis. © ZOUBEIR SOUISSI/Reuters

TUNISIA 07/05/2020

Ennahda and UGTT battle it out for control of Radès Port and unionist cash

The transport minister Anouar Maârouf's attempt to appoint Ennahda members to the heads of the three main state-run port companies has enraged the UGTT, already troubled by the Islamist party's unionist ambitions. [...]

View of containers at a loading terminal in the port of Rades in Tunis. © Reuters

TUNISIA 30/04/2020

OMMP, STAM, COTUNAV: Ennahda makes grab for port sector

Three people close to the Islamist party are about to be appointed to head the top three public companies in the country's port business. The changes stand to benefit maritime transport giant Maersk. [...]

TUNISIA 09/05/2019

Maersk plans its come-back in the port of Rades

Number one world container shipping group Maersk is trying to find a win-win way out of its dispute with the [...]

TUNISIA 18/04/2019

Maersk and IMM raided over capital flight suspicions

Leading world container shipping group Maersk, which is already in the sights of the Tunisian authorities, is now being targeted [...]

TUNISIA 18/10/2018

Ennahda aims to sink Radhouane Ayara

Islamist party Ennahda wants to take advantage of the accident involving a Cotunav ferry, which ran into a Cypriot ship [...]

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Maersk bets on Ennahda to save its local operation

Number one world shipping company Maersk is waiting anxiously for the government reshuffle planned by prime minister Youssef Chahed (MC 1295). It is praying that transport minister Radhouane Ayara will lose his job and, better still, be replaced by a [. [...]