The Attorney General’s Office reported Thursday that Misrata Criminal Court issued a ruling convicting two people who belonged to an organization established for the purpose of seizing funds from the Central Bank of Libya’s Sirte branch.

The Attorney General’s Office revealed that the arrested persons conspired with members of the organization to develop a plan to seize US$ 128 million and € 5 million from the bank’s funds in 2013 through coercion.

Found guilty, one person was sentenced to 15 years in prison, fined LD 2.5 million and permanently deprived of his civil rights. The second person was sentenced to imprisonment for 13 years. He was fined LD 50,000 and permanently deprived of his civil rights.

 

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Alahlia Cement Company CEO, board members imprisoned for LD 1.5 million fraud (libyaherald.com)

CBL Governor calls on Attorney General to stop continuous drain of inflated and mismanaged overseas state health costs (libyaherald.com)

Attorney General evaluates first results of review into Libyan citizen’s civil status, auditing residence records and births, deaths and marriage registration (libyaherald.com)

Attorney General orders arrest of company’s representative for importing banned GM corn (libyaherald.com)

Attorney General takes measures to combat Zawia refinery fuel smuggling through security apparatus (libyaherald.com)

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Attorney General orders the arrest of suspects in Man-Made River pipes crimes (libyaherald.com)

Attorney General orders detention of Sahara bank Deputy Manager for embezzlement (libyaherald.com)

Attorney General orders arrest of six Wahda Bank employees for fraud (libyaherald.com)

Attorney General orders detention of employees at Libyan embassy in Turkey for embezzling through a maintenance contract (libyaherald.com)

Attorney General orders detention of Financial Controller at Libyan embassy in Morocco (libyaherald.com)

Attorney General orders arrest of Bank of Commerce and Development employee in Benghazi for LD 12 million fraud (libyaherald.com)

Attorney General orders detention of Jumhouria Bank staff for embezzlement (libyaherald.com)

Attorney General orders detention of National Commercial Bank branch manager and staff for embezzlement (libyaherald.com)

Attorney General orders detention of three Airports Authority staff including the current and former heads (libyaherald.com)

Attorney General orders pretrial detention of former chairman of Libyana Mobile phone company and 3 board members for contracting infringements (libyaherald.com)

Attorney General orders pretrial detention of Sahara Bank Manager and employee for LD 2.6 million fraud (libyaherald.com)

Attorney General orders pretrial detention of Libya’s head of diplomatic mission in Uganda for misappropriating over US$ 1 million (libyaherald.com)

Pretrial arrest ordered for Financial Controller at Libya’s South Africa embassy – head of mission and his predecessor wanted for defrauding tens of thousands (libyaherald.com)

Pretrial detention of three former heads of Libyan mission in Ukraine for corruption for ‘‘hundreds of thousands’’ in hard currency (libyaherald.com)

Pretrial arrest ordered for the three top managers at Shwerif hospital for LD 3.5 million fraud (libyaherald.com)

Tripoli Tax Authority Director put in pretrial detention pending investigation into LD 250,000 public funds fraud (libyaherald.com)

Attorney General reviews cases and investigations in lengthy press conference (libyaherald.com)

Attorney General to investigates bakery use of banned potassium bromate in bread (libyaherald.com)

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