The 2018 report of the Audit Bureau in Tripoli reveals a summons against Mustafa Sanallah for irregularities in the National Oil Corporation (NOC), including the opening of a branch in Houston in violation of the law, but Sanallah refused to submit to investigation.
The report contains observations about the money that the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) and the Presidential Council earn from foreign exchange tax.
The Ministry of Health’s expenditures for the same year amounted to LYD 3.9 billion characterized by lack of staffing, and the loss of 59 cars registered in its name.
According to the report, Siddik al-Kabir monopolizes decision-making at the Central Bank of Libya (CBL), suspends board of directors, and withholds documents from the Audit Bureau
Additionally, forgery, manipulation, embezzlements, and corruption pervade in Libyan banks and there is a complete lack of transparency in all foreign exchange transactions
The report also contains grave violations of several Libyan embassies and consulates abroad run by hanger-on ambassadors close to the Presidential Council and its government, including the embassies of Libya in Egypt, Turkey, Italy, and other embassies of treatment missions in addition to serious administrative and legal violations by officials affiliated with the JCP to which Shakshak belongs.
The 2018 report also contains serious violations of the Presidential Council in terms of increased expenses on travel and other issues, in addition to the Council’s allocation of a special budget for its cabinet and another for the Prime Minister’s cabinet though they do the same work for the same entity. Moreover, the report contains observations about the money that the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) and the Presidential Council earn from foreign exchange tax.
The report highlights the violations of the armed groups affiliated to the Ministry of Interior, the documentary credits file, and other grave breaches and terrifying plunder, in addition to the violations of the Ministry of Defense, whose duties have been assumed by Fayez al-Sarraj since he dismissed al-Mahdi al-Barghathi after the Brak al-Shati massacre in 2017.
Audit Bureau report cites LYD 15bn as operating expenses for electricity company over 10 years. After 2011, maintenance expenditures decreased and salaries rose sharply from LYD 294m to LYD 1 bn/yr despite declining service to the point of being non-existent.
Embezzlement at the Health Attaché in Germany, including 1.8 million euros disbursed to a person of unknown nationality and unknown connection with the attaché, 680,000 euros withdrawn in the name of a Moroccan driver, and 420,000 euros in the name of a Sudanese employee, all of which deducted from the deposit of the wounded of al-Bunyan al-Marsous and other patients.
