The Attorney General’s Office reported last Monday (27 January) that investigators have ordered the detention of two Libyans and five expatriates for deliberately falsifying civil status data in the Tobruk Civil Registry Authority (CRA) office.
Detailing the case, the Attorney General’s Office explained that 12 Egyptian expatriates learned that a Libyan citizen had died and that no one from his family remained alive. The perpetrators then conspired with the Tobruk Civil Registry Authority services officer to falsify the data of the deceased’s official birth record (the Family Paper), so they recorded data stating that he had a wife and nine children.
They then falsified the marriage data of eight of them and issued them with Family Papers that enabled forty people – whose names were listed – to obtain National ID Numbers. They subsequently used these to gain state sector employment, state sector salaries, state grants to heads of household, passports and other citizenship proceeds.
When the East Tobruk District Prosecution completed the investigation procedures for the evidence of the case, the investigator ordered the pretrial detention of the defendants, pending investigation, and decided to prosecute the rest of the contributors to the incident.
