Tripoli: The Public Prosecutor's Office has taken decisive action by detaining a foreign national and prosecuting an employee of the Tripoli Civil Registry for their involvement in forging nine national identification numbers.
According to Libyan News Agency, the Public Prosecutor's Office revealed that the foreign national collaborated with a public employee at the Tripoli Civil Registry Office to forge a family registration document. This fraudulent document allowed nine individuals to unlawfully obtain national identification numbers. The scheme involved using a family registration number from a lineage that had died out.
The statement from the prosecutor's office detailed that the foreign national paid 10,000 dinars to the individual who facilitated the forgery and 20,000 dinars to the widow of the original family registration holder, who had returned to her home country. The foreign national then arranged for nine of his cousins to be listed as a family within the document, with two as the parents and the remaining seven as children.
This manipulation of records enabled all nine individuals to gain full citizenship rights. Notably, one of them was able to evade a life sentence from his home country due to this newfound status.
The Public Prosecutor's Office, operating under the Tobruk Court of Appeal's jurisdiction, has not only ordered the pretrial detention of the involved foreign national but also issued an arrest warrant for the public official and others who benefited from this fraudulent activity. Furthermore, they have suspended all documents based on the forgery and are actively tracing any profits gained from the illegal operation.