A former Maltese footballer accused of drug trafficking was released from a Tunisian jail earlier this week after being granted a Presidential pardon.

Tano Farrugia, 32, who used to play for the club Msida St Joseph, was arrested by Tunisian police in January 2010 on suspicion of trying to export 50kg of cannabis to Malta.

Mr Farrugia, who denied the charge, had been in jail ever since. But he was among 312 prisoners released when Tunisian caretaker President Moncef Marzouki issued a pardon on Sunday to mark the second anniversary of his country’s revolution, which was the beginning of the so- called Arab Spring.

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