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Sunday, September 2, 2018
Tunisia, in a crackdown on corruption, saw Prime Minister Youssef Chahed remove the Minister of Energy, Khaled Kaddour, and four other senior officials linked to that ministry.
Chahed ordered the merger of the Ministries of Energy and Industry and launched an investigation into corruption accusations, an official source told Reuters.
There was no immediate comment from Kaddour – the first minister targeted in a crackdown on corruption that Chahed launched last year. So far only mid-level officials have lost their jobs.
One of the other officials dismissed include the Secretary of State for Energy, Hachem Hmidi. Hmidi denied the accusations leveled against him. “My exit from the government helps me to devote myself to the case and prove that I am innocent of these malicious charges,” he was cited as saying in a Reuters report.
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