Today, Monday, the Public Prosecutor issued an order to detain former officials responsible for managing administrative, financial, treasury, and financial control affairs at the Ministry of Labor.

The Public Prosecutor’s media office stated that following an investigation into the embezzlement of public funds deposited in the Ministry of Labor’s account at the Central Bank of Libya, the investigator found that the financial leaders at the ministry caused significant financial harm due to their behavior that did not comply with their official duties. This behavior involved a suspect accessing banking instruments in which financial values were recorded as payment entitlements for one of the ministry’s employees.

The office added that the suspects deliberately forged data on the instruments and then presented them to the branch of Jumhouria Bank – Muzdah, where they embezzled one million, three hundred and forty-seven thousand, one hundred and forty-five dinars. Consequently, the investigator ordered the detention of the suspects pending further investigation and instructed to locate and bring in the beneficiary of the embezzled amount.