{"id":32439,"date":"2020-08-06T15:48:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T15:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tabadul.demo.ly\/en\/treasury-sanctions-criminal-network-threatening-the-stability-and-security-of-libya\/"},"modified":"2020-08-06T15:48:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T15:48:05","slug":"treasury-sanctions-criminal-network-threatening-the-stability-and-security-of-libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/treasury-sanctions-criminal-network-threatening-the-stability-and-security-of-libya\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasury Sanctions Criminal Network Threatening the Stability and Security of Libya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against a network of smugglers contributing to instability in Libya. OFAC designated Libyan national&nbsp;<strong>Faysal al-Wadi<\/strong>&nbsp;(Wadi), operator of the vessel&nbsp;<strong>Maraya<\/strong>; two associates,&nbsp;<strong>Musbah Mohamad M Wadi<\/strong>&nbsp;(Musbah) and&nbsp;<strong>Nourddin Milood M Musbah<\/strong>&nbsp;(Nourddin); and the Malta-based company,&nbsp;<strong>Alwefaq Ltd<\/strong>, pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13726. Additionally, the vessel Maraya was identified as blocked property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFaysal al-Wadi and his associates have smuggled fuel from Libya and used Libya as a transit zone to smuggle illicit drugs,\u201d said Deputy Secretary Justin G. Muzinich. \u201cThe United States is committed to exposing illicit networks exploiting Libya\u2019s resources for their own profit while hurting the Libyan people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wadi has worked with a network of contacts in North Africa and southern Europe to smuggle fuel from, and illicit drugs through, Libya to Malta. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Competition for control of smuggling routes, oil facilities, and transport nodes is a key driver of conflict in Libya and deprives the Libyan people of economic resources. Wadi\u2019s illicit trafficking operation transported drugs between the Libyan port of Zuwarah and Hurd\u2019s Bank, just outside Malta\u2019s territorial waters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hurd\u2019s Bank is a well-known geographic transfer location for illicit maritime transactions. Wadi also smuggled drugs and Libyan fuel into Malta itself. Wadi has kept all official documentation clear of his name, while being the primary organizer of smuggling operations using the vessel Maraya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against a network of smugglers contributing to instability in Libya. OFAC designated Libyan national&nbsp;Faysal al-Wadi&nbsp;(Wadi), operator of the vessel&nbsp;Maraya; two associates,&nbsp;Musbah Mohamad M Wadi&nbsp;(Musbah) and&nbsp;Nourddin Milood M Musbah&nbsp;(Nourddin); and the Malta-based company,&nbsp;Alwefaq Ltd, pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13726. Additionally, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9271],"tags":[10482],"class_list":["post-32439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-drugdrug-smugglinglibyaoiloil-smugglingsmuggling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tabadul.tv\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}