Hommam Al Nassim 
The Office of the Attorney General, Sadiq al-Sour, announced the detention of 5 employees at the Tax Authority, including two women, on charges related to embezzlement of public funds.
The office stated that the Anti-Corruption Prosecution, within the jurisdiction of the Tripoli Court of Appeals, convicted 5 individuals, including two women of embezzlement of public funds from the treasury of the Tax Authority, under the guise of entering data that violated the authority’s documents.
The office added that the accused falsely attributed documentary papers to commercial banks.
The Criminal Court of Tripoli, in its latest sessions, sentenced the first convict to 4 years and 6 months in prison and fined him 44,000 dinars, confiscating 22,000 dinars.
The court imposed a one-year prison sentence on the second, third, fourth, and fifth convicts, with the suspension of the sentence against the fourth and fifth convicts, according to the Office of the Attorney General.
In the context of corruption in western Libya, the former charge d’affaires of the Libyan mission to the Vatican was detained on Wednesday on charges of committing financial violations amounting to 669,000 euros. He forged invoices for medical treatment without any documents indicating the identities of Libyan patients or authorization from the medical institution to provide them with medical services, according to the Office of the Attorney General.
Earlier this month, the Public Prosecutor’s Office ordered the detention of the former charge d’affaires at the Portuguese embassy for his involvement in irregularities to seize an amount exceeding $815,000.
It is worth mentioning that earlier, three former ambassadors in Ukraine, the Libyan ambassador to South Africa and his predecessor in this position, as well as the financial controller at the embassy, and the former ambassador to Uganda, were detained on charges of embezzlement of public funds.
Western Libya suffers from widespread corruption in state institutions affiliated with the outgoing Government of National Unity led by Abdul Hamid al-Dbeibeh. There are dozens of cases under investigation regarding financial scandals discovered within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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