The Public Prosecution ordered the pretrial detention of two employees of the Sahara Bank, Omar Al-Mukhtar branch, in addition to a third suspect, accused of embezzling more than two million dinars from the accounts of the branch’s customers, pending the case.

The Attorney General’s Office clarified that the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Public Prosecutor took over, last Thursday, the investigation procedures into incidents of illegal access to a number of customer accounts of the Omar Al-Mukhtar branch, after receiving information regarding illegal banking operations conducted on customers’ accounts.

He added that the investigations affected a number of bank employees who had accessed the system of accounts, and the Public Prosecution ended up ordering the imprisonment of two bank workers with another contributor with them in receiving the proceeds of the crime in pretrial detention. It also ordered that the mentioned bank branch be subjected to criminal accountability aimed at checking and examining all work records.