The Attorney General’s Office reported last Thursday (16 January) that the Financial Affairs Control Officer at Libya’s Embassy in Eritrea has been detained, pending further investigation, for defrauding the Libyan state of US$ 160,000.
The Attorney General’s Office reported that its Deputy Public Prosecutor investigated the fact that the Mission’s Financial Affairs Control Officer deviated from the requirements of the interest entrusted to him. The investigation further revealed that he had dissolved the rules governing the management of public funds by conspiring with the Mission’s Financial Managers to insert forged official documents to conceal the seizure of US$ 160,000 of the funds allocated to the mission.
As a result, the Public Prosecution decided to detain the accused, pending investigation, and ordered the arrest of the rest of the beneficiaries of the seized money.
