TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia has issued a warrant summoning the widow of deceased Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat over a corruption scandal, the state news agency reported Monday.
The warrant was issued last week over Suha Arafat's role in a scandal involving former Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, his family and other high government officials, said Kadhem Zine El Abidine, spokesman for the Justice Ministry.
He did not provide any details, but an online journal "Attounissia" said she was being investigated over The International School of Carthage, which she founded in 2006 with Ben Ali's wife, Leila Trabelsi.
Relations between the two deteriorated over the …
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