Billions taken by Tunisia ex-dictator missing

Published April 12, 2013 5:11pm ET



TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Officials trying to right Tunisia’s ailing economy shouldn’t count on an estimated $20 billion still to be recovered from the family of the deposed dictator, a prominent Tunisian economist said Friday.

A $28 million check was presented to Tunisia on Thursday, but Ezzedine Saidane said that money was from an easily recovered Lebanese bank account owned by Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s wife — and the rest won’t be so easy to get back.

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