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Canada to
throw out billionaire kin of Tunisia dictator
Saturday January 29, 2011 02:34:12 PM,
Gurmukh Singh, IANS
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Toronto: With a
billionaire brother-in-law of the ousted Tunisian dictator Zine el
Abidine Ben Ali fleeing with his family to Montreal last week,
Canada Friday said it was taking steps to remove him from the
country.
Billionaire businessman Belhassen Trabelsi, who has been accused
of amassing wealth by looting the Tunisian people, landed in
Montreal after fleeing Tunisia in a private jet. The Tunisian
authorities have sought his extradition and requested the Canadian
government to hand him over to them, Mouldi Sakri, Tunisia's
ambassador to Canada, said.
Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said his
government was looking at ways to quickly comply with the request
by the Tunisian authorities for extraditing the deposed dictator's
brother-in-law.
"He is not welcome. We are going to find - in the context,
obviously, of current legislation - ways to assure, as quickly as
possible, that we might comply with the demand from the Tunisia
government,'' said Cannon.
The minister said Canada was taking steps to freeze Trabelsi's
assets. Canadian immigration authorities have reportedly already
revoked Trabelsi's permanent residence status in Canada which he
acquired in the 1990s.
But the dictator's kin can appeal and prolong the process under
Canada's lax laws and thus stop his removal.
Once acquired, the Canadian permanent residence status cannot be
easily revoked. It can take years of legal battle. Even if he
loses the legal battle, he can still file for refugee status on
the grounds that he would tortured if sent back to Tunisia.
This loophole in Canadian laws has been exploited by criminals,
terrorists and fugitives to stay on indefinitely in Canada.
The overthrow of the Tunisian dictator has led to a similar mass
movement in Egypt for the overthrow of the long-entrenched
President Hosni Mubarak who has ruled the most populous Arab
nation since the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981.
(Gurmukh Singh can be contacted at gurmukh.s@ians.in)
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