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Sanalla addresses Al-Messallati to stop addressing oil companies regarding prior control of contracts

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The head of the National Oil Corporation sent a correspondence to the Acting President of the Accounting Office in Tripoli, in which he referred to his correspondence about the Office’s prior control over the contracts of some parties,  specified exclusively in Article 24 of Law No. 9 of 2013 regarding the reorganization of the Office, including the contracts of oil companies.

The Corporation said that the Office’s claim of prior control over the contracts of oil companies is not legally valid based on the absence of a legal text, and that the legislative oversight legacy in Libya since its independence did not grant the regulatory bodies of all their names the competence to pre-control over the contracts of oil companies with explicit exemption or by not stipulating them or by administrative arrangements taken in particular, as Sanalla explained in several points, the opinion of the law administration.

Sanalla concluded his correspondence to Al-Messallati by calling for an immediate cessation of addressing oil companies regarding the issue of prior control over their contracts, and that his position is different in this regard.

Taken from Sada Website

Al-Hibri: Half of the state’s reserves have been lost

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The Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Libya Ali Al-Hibri confirmed that half of the state’s reserves were lost, and that the current political class in general in the country did not show interest in the future of the national economy.

In his speech during the conference on the need to diversify the economy organized by the Economic Research Center at the University of Benghazi on Saturday, under the auspices of the Central Bank of Libya, he called for the start of reforming the banking sector and the need to reconsider Law No. 1 of 2013, in addition to the need to reactivate and open the financial stock market.

The Deputy Governor called for the formation of a scientific committee aimed at the economic development of the Libyan economy, pointing out at the same time that there will be no reform without a conscious political will free of corruption and its goal is the homeland.

Assessment Department Director of the Environment Ministry responds accusations of failure to perform its work against the Ministry

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The Director of Evaluation and Environmental Authorizations in the Ministry of Environment Naji Issa Ansura, responded in an exclusive statement to our source about the accusations by an official of the Atomic Energy Establishment that the Ministry of Environment had failed to perform its work.

Naji Issa said that the workers of the Ministry of Environment are working very hard to play their part in spite of all the difficulties they faced, adding that the official of the Atomic Energy Establishment should not have charged the Ministry, which was considered to play the required role in accordance with its capabilities.

He explained that the Environment Ministry has no cars for mobility and field visits, and its current visits are carried out by private employee cars or cars of the visited regions, as well as the salaries of the Ministry workers are weak and barely equal to the security pension, « meaning that the sleeping person in his house takes more than the engineer and specialist that works by the ministry, “according to his expression.

The Environment Ministry Official Naji Issa ended by saying: “We strive to do our part to the fullest and over time we will be able to set all the required environmental requirements. “

The causes of canceling the Economy minister decisions for the new system

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The general manager of the General Commercial Registration Office of Economy and Trade Ministry “Mohammed Ben Kuthair ” replied to Sada newspaper’s source, exclusively, about the meeting of the General Director of the Information Documentation Center of the Ministry of Economy.

He said: « The cancellation of the decisions issued by the Minister, was due to the existence of an error in the decision and violation of Law No. 23 of 2010 on commercial activity, where the General Director of the Center has taken advantage of the decisions by issuing commercial restrictions violating the law ».

He added: « The restrictions and records are issued according to the lecturer of the General Assembly, its decisions, or the provisions and orders in an executive formulas, and are reviewed by the legal references to the general trade register ».

Ben Kuthair also said: « The Information Documentation Center issued new restrictions without a legal review, and companies restrictions the National Commercial Bank in violation which is a crime held accountable in accordance with the law, and issued commercial names in accordance with Article 483 of theCommercial Law, saying that was not the competence of the Commercial Registration Office. The recipients of registration requests under Act No. 23 of 2010 are the Office of the General Commercial Registry and the Information Centre is only a technical entity that collects data, information and statistics on the activities of the sector. The system is ready for launch and contains corporate data from 2006 to 2021 and was inaugurated by the Minister of Economy and Trade, adding it was blocked by the General Director of the Information and Documentation Centre ».

He also revealed that this system will be available for all contracts editors and any contracts editor can establish a company from his office without going to the Commercial Registration Office. The system will be linked to the Civil Registration Service and the Information Service on the verification of the national number of corporate owners, emphasizing that there is some agreement between the Ministry of Economy and many other entities, as well as payment through electronic payment through a “payment service.”


Adapted from Sada Website

Taxes were deposited in the Finance Ministry accounts in favor of Corporation projects

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The National Oil Corporation revealed that total taxes have exceeded 2 billion and 275 million dollars, equivalent to more than 10 billion dinars, since September 2020 until the end of December 2021.

The Corporation explained that this value was deposited in the Ministry of Finance to the Central Bank of Libya, noting that it would hold taxes in the coming months for the southern refinery project and infrastructure projects in accordance with the decisions of the Council of Ministers.

The Chairman of the Corporation Directors Board, Mustafa Sanalla, commented that « The winners from the investment of taxes in the oil sector are the people of Libya, and the corporation assures them that it is the faithful guardian of the country’s oil wealth. »

Sanalla: « We need to save infrastructure and improve investment wheel in the national oil sector »

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The chairman of the National Oil Corporation said oil prices increased at the end of last year and achieved its biggest annual gains since 2016 driven by the global economy’s recession due to the Corona epidemic, adding that prices had not reached its highest levels and expected to continue to rise.

Sanalla confirmed that the oil sector’s ability to invest and update the infrastructure will remain weak in the foreseeable future, especially in light of the scarcity of budgets, stressing the need to think outside the fund and create initiatives to save the infrastructure and pay for investment struggle in the national oil sector as the approximate unique financier for public treasury.

The Chairman of the Directors Board of the National Corporation added that the country’s decision-making departments should address the damaged budgets, and that we should care about the safety of our oil assets and about the importance of their conservation. Also, we have not to deny the steps of the institution in financing oil projects in special arrangements.

He pointed out that the implementation of a package of vital projects, headed by the south refinery and the laboratory of cooking gas to enhance production values ​​and self-sufficiency of fuel requires special arrangements for their implementation and exceeded the bureaucracy of the country.

Libya Telecom and Technology announces the reduction of the subscription price for the Internet service “4G”

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Libya Telecom and Technology “LTT” announced the reduction of the subscription price for the Internet service “4G” to 190 dinars instead of the previous value of 365 dinars.

According to one of the distribution centers approved by the “LTT” company, the new subscription to the “4G” service for the amount of 190 dinars includes a “25 Giga” balance, valid for one month, in addition to a “120 Giga” gift, valid for two months.

It is noteworthy that the papers required for participation include the original passport or the original ID card, the national number  and personal attendance, in addition to the family register if the participant is between fifteen and eighteen years old.

2021 Report of Human Rights Watch: arbitrary detentions, disruption of justice system and other inhumane actions

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In a recent report covering 2021, Human Rights Watch said that Libyan courts are in a restricted position that does not allow them to resolve election disputes, including registration and results. The report published on Friday spoke of the disruption of the Libyan criminal justice system in Some areas because of years of fighting and political division. Judges, prosecutors, and lawyers remained vulnerable to harassment and attacks by armed groups.

The report also monitored that the Ministry of Justice, until last August, was arbitrarily detaining 12,300 people, including women and children, in 27 prisons and other detention facilities recognized by the Interim Government of National Unity, warning of inhumane conditions in prisons in Libya.

In September, the authorities in the West released eight detainees linked to Gaddafi who had been detained since 2011, including Al-Saadi, one of Gaddafi’s sons, who has been detained since 2014 after receiving him from Niger. In 2018, an appeals court in Tripoli acquitted Al-Saadi of all charges, including first-degree murder, but Human Rights Watch noted that he had remained in arbitrary detention and was ill-treated for three years. Also, Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi, wanted by the International Criminal Court since 2011 for committing “serious crimes” during the 2011 uprising, “is still a fugitive” and Libya is still obligated to extradite him to “The Hague.”

Also, the death of the former head of the Libyan Internal Security Agency, Al-Tuhamy Khaled, was indicated in many reports, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes he allegedly committed in 2011. He died in Cairo in February. It was also reported that Mahmoud Al-Werfalli, a commander associated with the General Command, wanted by the International Criminal Court for “multiple murders” in eastern Libya, was killed in March in Benghazi by unidentified gunmen.

Human Rights Watch said that Marshal Khalifa Haftar is facing three separate lawsuits filed in a district court in Virginia by families claiming that they “have relatives who were killed or tortured by his forces in Libya after 2014”.

The organization referred to the report of the fact-finding mission in Libya in October, which concluded that “several parties to the conflict have violated international humanitarian law and may have committed war crimes.” The mission, established by the United Nations Human Rights Council, began its full operation in Libya in June 2020. The Human Rights Council renewed the mission’s mandate for an additional nine months in October so that it can complete its investigations.

With regard to the death penalty, the report referred to the Libyan Penal Code stipulating the death penalty in 30 of its articles, but no executions have been carried out in Libya since 2010, although civil and military courts continued to impose it.

Adapted from Human Rights Watch

The General Association of Zawia Oil Refining Company meets to discuss the establishment of several projects

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Mustafa Sanalla called in this first meeting of the General Association to concert efforts to solve the problems facing the company in achieving its goals and expediting the solution of the electricity problem, and what the refinery needs to speed up the implementation of approved projects for its development.

The Chairman of the Management Committee of Zawia Company also confirmed their relentless efforts to study and present some important projects, most notably the establishment of a new refining unit in the refinery as well as the construction of an oil mixing and filling plant in the Benghazi asphalt factory.

Adapted from Sada Website

The Accounting Department calls on the Ministries of Health and of Foreign Affairs to suspend the Health Office Head at the Libyan Embassy in Cairo

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The Acting Head of the Accounting Department, Alaa Al-Din Al-Masallati, sent a letter to the Ministers of Health and of Foreign Affairs of the National Unity Government, calling for the suspension of the health office head at the Libyan Embassy in Cairo, and his removal from his job, and assigning fast someone to take his place.

After following up on the Department by examining and reviewing the accounts of the Libyan Embassy in Cairo, the Health Office in Cairo, and what was revealed by this evaluation, the Department found a clear weakness in the work of the Health Office represented in using the allocated deposit to pay non-intended purposes.

It also found that there is no sanitary conditions between the Health Office and the financial controller, leaving the matter of completing the procedures of entering patients to hospitals to the patients themselves, and limiting the office’s role to referring financial transactions to the financial controller without having a role in review and auditing, also not setting up a program to ensure the review of debts provided by hospitals, and the failure to develop a treatment program for Libyans residing in Alexandria.