Hi Nikki23,
Just read your message about going into business with a Tunisian you hardly know. Myself and my wife went into partnership with two Tunisian's, we had a 40/60% share in the business. mine was also a restaurant in Hammam Sousse. It was a large beautifully decorated cafe/restaurant called 'Titanic'. The two Tunisian's were brothers from Monastir and we drew up contracts etc with a lawyer and thought everything was ok. we handed over 50,000 dinars cash to the brothers for our share of the business, and guess what, they disappeared. It turned out they had no intention of doing the business with us and just saw the cash. It turned out they were heavily in debt and used the money to clear their debts.
Anyway, the restaurant never opened, and after a finding a brilliant lawyer in Sousse who fought for us in the courts, we finally got back around 30,000 dinars of our money, and one of the two brothers who's name was on the contract went to prison. This happen in August 2005 and we finally got our money around April 2006.
Many people did say we was lucky to get this money back, so even though we lost 20,000 we should feel lucky we got any at all.
Please don't think all Tunisian's are crooks,as I have met and made friends with many that are correct. But i advise you not to consider doing any business or parting with any money to someone who is a friend's uncle. I found out after, we could have set up on our own, without aTunisian partner. I did sucessfully run my own business after this ordeal and things were ok until i decided to return to the uk, so i sold my business to a Tunisian, but did it all correct may i add.
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