Seven years in prison was imposed on a former ambassador of Libya in Brussels who is accused of corruption in the performance of her duties, as announced yesterday by the public prosecutor’s office. A Tripoli court convicted former diplomat Amal Gerari for “actions” aimed at “securing illegal privileges”, “abuse of public funds” and for harming “the public interest”, the prosecution explained via Facebook. She was also fined “double the amounts she misused”, according to the same source. Ms Gerari was ousted by government order after a scandal erupted over the leaking of an incriminating audio message on social networking sites. She was taken into custody in October by the prosecutor’s office and questioned about the “abuses”, administrative and financial, attributed to her. The scandal erupted when an audio message attributed to Amal Gerari to an associate surfaced on social networking sites, in which the ambassador said she would need a “virtual invoice” worth more than 200,000 euros to cover the costs of treating a cancer patient, which… did not exist . The […]
Source: News Beast
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