By Ashraf Abdul-Wahab.
Tripoli, 27 September 2013:
Two members of the General National Congress have been disbarred by the Public Officials Standards Commission . . .[restrict](POSC) set up under the Political Isolation Law to purge the system of officials who worked in key positions for the Qaddafi regime.
Akram Al-Janin, an independent member for Khoms, and Mohamed Arish, a member of the Justice & Construction Party for Sebha, were found to have worked for the former regime – Janin as a member of one of Qaddafi’s revolutionary committees and Arish as a member of the court that tried those accused of crimes against Qaddafi’s political system.
Earlier this month the POSC announced that it had at that point cleared 125 members of Congress.
The two are the first to be banned by the commission. They have the right to appeal to the courts to overturn its decision. The POSC’s predecessor, the Integrity Commission ensured the removal of 12 Congress members.
Janin shot to unwelcome prominence in May when he along with Taha Bara, the public prosecutor, and the Investment Undersecretary at the Oil Ministry were arrested by the SSC following a disturbance at a villa in Tripoli’s Zenata area. All three were accused by the SSC of immoral activities including alcohol offences. Janin was released on 3 June after it was decided there was insufficient evidence against him. [/restrict]
