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Tunisian ex-PM Jebali arrested on suspicion of money laundering

Hamadi Jebali was Tunisia's prime minister in 2012, before resigning in 2013 following a political crisis [File: Zoubeir Souissi/ Reuters]

Tunisian police have arrested former Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali, a former senior member of the Ennahdha party, on suspicion of money laundering, his lawyer told Reuters.

Police in the city of Sousse seized the phones of Jebali and his wife, and then took him to an unknown location on Thursday, according to a statement by his family on Facebook.

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