Tunisia-Alicante case: 26 apartments seized, 43 Tunisians involved

The results of the inquiries conducted by the Customs on the Alicante affair were presented, yesterday Wednesday, June 10, 2020, to the economic and financial judicial pole. A total of 43 Tunisians living abroad are implicated in the case, it is declared.

The financial crimes committed, says a Tunisian Customs press release, include:

• Undeclared export of banned goods
• Violation of tax privileges.
• The decrease in the value of exported goods utilising fraudulent documents.
• Customs clearing of goods abroad contradictory to legal codes.
• Non-declaration of earnings abroad
• Non-return of export earnings.
• Starting a bank account abroad without permission from the Central Bank of Tunisia.
• Conclusion of supply operations in contradiction with legal formulas.
• Business between a resident and a non-resident.
• Business travel exchange operations for objects other than those for which they were granted.

As a result of these infractions, several seizures were made:

• 26 apartments in the Alicante region of Spain, with prices of 30 bank accounts and shares in the capital of companies abroad, for a value equivalent to 11 million dinars.
• Amounts in foreign currency equivalent to 12 million dinars represented by the payment of 12,500 tonnes of sugar illegally
• Goods represented by fish exported without declaration and construction equipment for a total value equivalent to 1.6 million dinars.
• Amounts in foreign currency for exchanges between a resident and a non-resident, up to 707 thousand dinars.
• Various goods seized without declaration, worth 188 thousand dinars.

The total value of properties, goods and money seized reached 25.7 million dinars and the value of unpaid customs taxes of 52.6 million dinars.