Tunisia: Abdelkefi says quits over conflict of interests case

TUNIS - 18 August 2017: Tunisia's interim finance minister, Fadhel Abdelkefi, told local radio on Friday that he was resigning from the government over a conflict of interests case in which he has been fined and handed a suspended prison sentence.

Abdelkefi had also been serving since last year as minister for development, investment and international cooperation in Prime Minister Youssef Chahed's government.