BEIRUT: The Lebanese-Canadian bank has frozen assets worth more than $29 million belonging to former Tunisian first lady Leila Trabolsi and members of her family, a Kuwaiti newspaper reported Monday.
Al-Anbaa daily quoted officials at the Lebanese Central Bank as saying that only one of the country’s banks, the Lebanese-Canadian bank, held assets belonging to the family of Trabolsi, who is the wife of deposed Tunisian President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
They said the largest of the accounts held by the family was that of the former first lady, with assets of $28,779,848,26.
Other smaller accounts, holding around $250,000 in total, were held in the names of her family members Monssif Bin Mohammed Trabolsi, Mohammed Mrad Bin Mohammed Trabolsi and his wife.