By Jamal Adel.
Tripoli, 26 March 2014:
Security forces have seized 10 trucks carrying more 1,200 sacks of subsidized flour which . . .[restrict]they believe were going to be smuggled across the southern borders into Chad and Niger.
Troops from the Misratan-led Third Force linked to Libya Central Shield captured the haul at Sokna, west of Hun.
“Approximately 480 tons of flour were heading from Benghazi to Sebha in the south to be smuggled into neighbouring countries,” the spokesperson of the Third Force, Ala Al-Huwaik, told the Libya Herald. Most of the drivers were from Ajdabiya, he said, and had counterfeit documentation with them.
“Libya goods are being massively smuggled out, which is doing a great damage to the national economy,” Al-Huwaik added, blaming the country’s open borders for enabling such smuggling. [/restrict]
