The Attorney General’s Office reported today that Tripoli Criminal Court has convicted employees authorised to perform compliance and receipt duties at the Ministry of Health, as well as the commissioners of implementing tools contracted by the ministry.
The Attorney General’s Office reported that the Public Prosecution filed a public lawsuit against fourteen defendants after proving that the management had received non-compliant medical equipment and supplies, and that official documents had been submitted indicating that the hospitals in Ghadames, Jendouba, Nesma, and Shuqaiq had received medical equipment and supplies, contrary to the truth.
The Criminal Court convicted the defendants, sentenced thirteen defendants to five years in prison, fined each one of them one thousand dinars, and ordered the first to eight defendants to return eleven million eight hundred and eighty-one thousand dinars, in solidarity with the commissioners of implementing tools. The court also deprived all defendants of their civil rights for the duration of the sentence and for a year following its execution. The court sentenced the fourteenth defendant to one year in prison with hard labour.
