Jumhouria Bank employees detained on charges of embezzlement

The Public Prosecutor’s Office has ordered the pretrial detention of employees at Jumhouria Bank branches in Mizran and Mellitah, pending investigation into banking transactions carried out between 2013 and 2021.

The Public Prosecutor’s Office explained that investigations conducted by the investigative authority into the legality of several banking transactions concluded that the employees had embezzled approximately 9,916,000 dinars from the bank’s funds.

According to the investigation’s findings, the money was transferred through a series of bank transfers to the accounts of relatives of the employees, with the aim of concealing the source of the funds and the associated rights and complicating the process of tracing them.

Crimes