The Libyan Public Prosecutor instructed the Undersecretary of Public Prosecution in his office to investigate the incidents of the seizure of a financial sum of 29,265,335,000 dinars from the general account of the cheques certified by the Tripoli Central Hospital Agency of the National Commercial Bank.
The Public Prosecutor revealed that these investigations had resulted in one of the employees of the current accounts department at the agency having committed the act of seizure, transferring criminal proceeds to fourteen accounts run by his relatives and people he knows, and then transferring them from these accounts to other accounts, with the help of the agency director, who revealed to the original actor his digital authority that gave him access to the agency’s database and make transfers.
The investigations also revealed that the behavior of the first accused passed through the three stages of money laundering: deposit, camouflage, and merger by using criminal proceeds to purchase foreign currency using cheques, then sell it to liquidate the amounts and buy real estate inside and outside the city of Tripoli.
The investigation concluded that both defendants confessed to what was attributed to them after arresting, bringing the first accused, and obtaining contracts for those purchased real estate. The Public Prosecutor ordered the pretrial detention of the two accused and maintaining these properties.