Guiga Lyes Ben Laroussi

Infobox Criminal
subject_name = Guiga Lyes Ben Laroussi


image_size = 180px
image_caption = Picture taken from Interpol website
date_of_birth = Birth date and age|1969|6|14|df=y
place_of_birth = Le Bardo, Tunisia
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place_of_death =
charge = 16 charges including possessing cocaine and selling ecstasy
penalty = 24 years in jail and 20 strokes of the cane
status = At large
occupation = Ex-marketing manager
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Guiga Lyes Ben Laroussi [According to Interpol website, Guiga is his surname. See the link below.] (born on 14 June 1969, in Le Bardo, Tunisia [cite web | url = http://www.interpol.int/public/Data/Wanted/Notices/Data/2005/99/2005_13399.asp | title = Wanted: GUIGA, Lyes Ben Laroussi | publisher = Interpol | date = 2007-01-15 | accessdate = 2007-02-06] ) is an international fugitive wanted by Singapore government for drug trafficking.

Guiga was the marketing manager at Bobby Rubino's restaurant in Singapore. Central Narcotics Bureau officers had Guiga under surveillance for two months and spotted him several times meeting suspected drug users outside pubs in popular nightspot areas, such as Mohamed Sultan.cite news|url = http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-southeastasia.asp?parentid=15705 | title = Singapore's cocaine circle | author = Ben Nadarajan | publisher = The Straits Times | date = 2004-10-09 | accessdate = 2007-02-06] In the first-ever raid of a cocaine syndicate ring in Singapore in October 2004, which resulted in the arrest of 23 members including wealthy locals and high-profile expatriates, Guiga was claimed by the police to be the link man of the ring.cite news| url = http://www.littlespeck.com/content/lifestyle/CTrendsLifestyle-041017.htm | title = Drug war enters new dimension | author = Seah Chiang Nee | publisher = The Sunday Star | date = 2004-10-17 | accessdate = 2007-02-06] He was charged with 16 charges including possessing convert|25.2|g|1 of cocainecite news|url = http://www.singapore-window.org/sw05/050223af.htm | title = Tunisian facing drug charges jumps bail | publisher = Agence France Presse | date = 2005-02-23 | accessdate = 2007-02-06] and selling ecstasy to Dutch businessman Petrus Van Wanrooij. [cite news | url = http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_world_story_skin/476920 | title = Singapore to jail man for taking E | accessdate = 2007-03-26 | date = 2005-03-01 | publisher = Reuters] Guiga's girlfriend Mariana Abdullah was charged with drug-related offence as well.

Guiga faced 24 years in jail and 20 strokes of the cane under a plea bargain arrangement he was considering. He failed to appear in court on February 23 2005, when he was due to appear to give his plea over the charges. Judge F.G. Remedios issued a warrant for his arrest and said his bail fee of S$280,000 (US$170,000) had been forfeited. Since Guiga's passport had been confiscated as a bail condition, it is unclear how he managed to flee the country. Guiga was subsequently listed by Interpol as a fugitive.

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