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The Criminal Division of the Tunis Court of First Instance sentenced Tawfiq Abbas, former chairman and CEO of the National Tobacco and Matches Agency, to 18 years in prison in absentia. It also ordered him to repay more than 90,000 dinars and barred him from holding public office. The case involved the seizure of cigarettes belonging to the agency and their sale outside official distribution channels, causing losses of more than 170,000 dinars. The ruling also sentenced four former employees to terms ranging from two to eight years and ordered them jointly to repay around 81,000 dinars. The court dismissed the case against five other defendants. Abbas served as chief of staff to the Minister of Industry in 2018, before becoming head of the National Tobacco and Matches Agency in December 2019. No confirmed information was available about why the ruling was issued in absentia or whether it had been appealed.
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