HUNT GOES ON FOR GADDAFI’S MISSING BILLIONS – BUT WITH NO EFFECTIVE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, LIBYANS ARE UNLIKELY TO BENEFIT
July 1st, 2016
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was killed and his regime overthrown in 2011. Billions of dollars in assets and funds stashed away over the years have disappeared. The hunt is still on but with Libya in chaos, there is no effective state to push the investigation and repatriate the cash, while commercial crime in this north African country has reached unprecedented levels. Paul Cochrane reports
In the months before Muammar Gaddafi was killed in October 2011, after he fled from the Libyan capital Tripoli in August, the long-time leader reportedly sold off a ...
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