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2021-03-15 Africa North

Scottish companies linked to £5bn Libya fraud

[THETIMES.CO.UK] An alleged £5 billion fraud linked to a former Libyan government official included a web of Scottish companies and more than 90 bank accounts, according to leaked documents that reveal the scale of a Police Scotland operation.

Details of the six-year investigation — code-named Adelanter — were laid out in a briefing by Scottish police shared with Libyan authorities in 2018.

They reveal that a single Scottish company was awarded contracts worth £150 million by government agencies in Libya, including the Organisation for Development of Administrative Centres, tasked with developing infrastructure.

Between 1989 and 2011, it was headed by Ali Dabaiba, 74, a Qadaffy-era government official who was accused of inflating the cost of construction projects and awarding tenders to companies he was connected with.

It is nothing, just some fraud, corruption at the expense of the lives of Libyan people. Nothing important here. #Libya https://t.co/v9uPuLvikA
— Mohamed Eljarh (@Eljarh) March 14, 2021

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