The I Watch organisation intends to file a complaint against the Ennahdha Movement for dubious financing, it announced on Tuesday.

“A criminal complaint will be filed with the prosecutor at the Court of First Instance in Tunis over suspected financing under the Organic Law No. 2015-26 dated August 7, 2015 on the fight against terrorism and money laundering,” it said in a statement.

I Watch will also file a petition with the Court of Auditors to ensure that the procedures provided by the electoral law are applied to Ennahdha.

The organisation points out that the Ennahdha movement had signed lobbying contracts before the 2014 and 2019 elections as well as two other contracts before its 10th Congress in 2016 and before the 2018 Municipal elections. These last two contracts amount to a sum of 355,850 dollars, or one million dinars, it indicated.

I Watch recalls, in this connection, that the Tunisian law, and more specifically Article 19 of Decree-Law No. 2011-87, prohibits political parties from accepting :

– Direct or indirect funding, in cash or in kind, from a foreign party.

– Direct or indirect funding from an unknown source.

– Aid, donations and gifts from public or private legal entities, with the exception of financing charged to the State budget

– Gifts, donations and legacies of the natural persons and whose annual amount exceeds sixty thousand (60.000) dinars by donator.

Source: Tap News Agency