"If I made mistakes I am prepared to offer an account and appear before the courts, even if I never had the intention of harming my country or my people," said the brother of Ben Ali's despised wife Leila.
In the letter, authenticated by his lawyer, "citizen Belhassen Trabelsi" says he invested his fortune in the north African country, creating around 4,000 jobs.
Trabelsi, who has been in Montreal since fleeing the uprising in January 2011, faces a review of his immigration status in Canada on April 23.
The Tunisian authorities have asked Ottawa to arrest him.
Ben Ali, for his part, is in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia has accepted that Riyadh will probably never extradite him to his homeland, President Moncef Marzouki said last month.
Tunisia's revolution sparked a string of regional uprisings known as the Arab Spring which ousted the rulers of Egypt, Libya and Yemen.
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In the letter, authenticated by his lawyer, "citizen Belhassen Trabelsi" says he invested his fortune in the north African country, creating around 4,000 jobs.
Trabelsi, who has been in Montreal since fleeing the uprising in January 2011, faces a review of his immigration status in Canada on April 23.
The Tunisian authorities have asked Ottawa to arrest him.
Ben Ali, for his part, is in Saudi Arabia and Tunisia has accepted that Riyadh will probably never extradite him to his homeland, President Moncef Marzouki said last month.
Tunisia's revolution sparked a string of regional uprisings known as the Arab Spring which ousted the rulers of Egypt, Libya and Yemen.
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