Algeria has charged former Tunisian presidential candidate Nabil Karoui with entering the country illegally and sent to jail while awaiting trial.
Local media reports that a court in the province of Constantine, in the east of Algeria, ordered that Karoui and his brother, Ghazi, who is a Member of Parliament, be imprisoned pending prosecution.
Karoui who is the leader of the second largest party in Tunisia, had been arrested last month together with four others, including his brother, in the border city of Tebessa, where they were hosted by a local.
In 2019, Karoui was jailed in Tunisia for six months while running his presidential campaign. He was released but is still under investigation for money laundering and tax evasion.
The wealthy businessman who owns Nesma TV channel denies any wrongdoing.
The Tunisian authorities are believed to have requested his extradition from Algeria.
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