The Attorney General’s Office reported last Friday (10 January) that the Public Prosecutor has detained the Health Attaché and the Financial Controller at the Libyan mission in Greece between 2011 to 2014.
They are accused of defrauding/embezzling over LD 575 million of state funds allocated for the payment of Greek hospitals for the healthcare of Libya’s war wounded at the time.
The Attorney General’s Office reported that the Public Prosecutor inferred that the healthcare contractors had violated the rules and regulations in force in the management of public money. He said they had done this by deliberately disposing of financial values without corresponding hospitalisation invoices proving the receipt of medical services. The accused had also failed to prove financial data indicating that they had disbursed financial values for the benefit of persons without stating their identity or attaching evidence of the fairness of the disbursement.
They had also disbursed financial amounts for the benefit of persons who do not belong to the State of Libya by nationality and also causing harm to the right to public money by paying a debt that appeared in documents and invoices for providing medical services contrary to the truth.
The Attorney General’s Office reported that after completing the interrogation of the two accused, the investigator ordered their detention pending investigation and began requesting the procedures necessary to determine the responsibility of the remaining contributors to the actions subject to investigation.
