JAKARTA – Tunisia is reported to be the next African country to embrace cryptocurrencies. This happened after the arrest of a 17-year-old boy for buying Bitcoin.
The Tunisian Minister of Economy, Ali Kooli, immediately responded to this incident, who said that the North African country would soon decriminalize the purchase of Bitcoin.
According to Bitcoin News, the decision is aimed at avoiding the arrest of other young Tunisians who are interested in buying cryptocurrencies. Therefore, Kooli appealed to the government not to arrest cryptocurrency users anymore.
"I would change the law, we can't jail a young Tunisian for buying Bitcoin," Kooli said in an interview on a local television station.
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The arrest of the 17-year-old youth by the authorities on suspicion of money laundering given the lack of clarity regarding crypto laws in the country.
The arrests were strongly criticized by the Tunisian blockchain community. Crypto enthusiasts on social media also condemned the incident.
With the statement from the Tunisian Minister of Economy, Kooli became another Tunisian official who took the initiative to embrace cryptocurrency. Apart from Kooli, other officials have also issued similar statements.
In 2020, the Governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia, Marouane Abbasi once said that Tunisia should follow Bitcoin and encourage the government to draft a crypto trading bill in his country.
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