Tripoli- Today, Monday, the Public Prosecution ordered the pretrial detention of four officials in the Ministry of Housing in the former Government of National Accord, pending cases of financial and administrative corruption.
In a statement, the Attorney General’s office stated that after the investigations into the communication submitted by the Director-General of the Public Services Company in Jabal Al-Akhdar, it was proven that the four officials in the ministry were involved in the incident of facilitating the commission of a crime to seize the amount of 1.8 million dinars and deposit it in a bank account managed by a Palestinian expatriate.
The office confirmed that the investigations into the case resulted in proving that officials of the Ministry of Housing and Construction were involved in a (positive) activity that enabled the expatriate accused to seize the aforementioned and protected sum of money. In return, they obtained a part of the money after disguising its source and the rights related to it.
The Public Prosecution Office indicated that the Public Prosecution Office had filed charges; Money laundering; abuse of office for financial gain; the use of forged official documents for the purpose of covering the documentary cycle; and managing the bank account, to each of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Housing and Construction in the Government of National Accord; Director of Administration and Finance Department; the financial controller; Director of the Internal Audit Department at the Ministry.
Source: Libyan News Agency