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| Scottish companies linked to £5bn Libya fraud |
| 2021-03-15 |
| [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.
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| Posted by:Fred |