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 Tunisia’s Central Bank Denies Gold ‘Heist’ by Ben Ali’s WifePosted on Jan 17, 2011
A spokesman for Tunisia’s central bank denies a Le Monde report that the wife of ousted Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali left the country with almost $60 million worth of Tunisia’s gold reserves.
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By Beats, January 18, 2011 at 2:05 am Link to this comment
of course they denied it… what do you expect them to do. What is sad is that this kind of money is even in reserves to allow people to steal it like that.. a country that has so many poor people should not have reserves of gold just chilling out
Report thisBy Go Right Young Man, January 17, 2011 at 10:56 pm Link to this comment
A popular uprising fueled by unemployment, economic suffering, and long-term discontent has overthrown the dictator—but not necessarily the dictatorship—in Tunisia, and the only notable mention on TruthDig concerns reports of stolen gold? - Interesting.
Not unlike the recent mention of Kosovo, this subject will likely draw little attention on this Web space. Without a reason to rail against the U.S. Tunisia’s revolt means nothing here.
Report thisBy rollzone, January 17, 2011 at 9:12 pm Link to this comment
hello. this little disagreement over 3000 pounds of
Report thisgold distracts from their stolen nest egg amounting to
1.5 billion dollars. seize and return all the monies
stolen from the peoples of Tunisia, or extradite the
whole criminal family back to face justice in Tunisia.