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Consortium News
March 29, 2018
France's ex-president is accused of receiving €50m in campaign funds from Muammar Gaddafi. ... Following his election, Sarkozy very warmly welcomed Muammar Gaddafi in Paris on December 10, 2007 for a state visit during which the Libyan leader was permitted to set up his tents in gardens close to theÃâà...
New Republic
March 28, 2018
He and close colleagues are accused of receiving 50 million Euros from Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi in his successful 2007 presidential campaign, five million of which allegedly arrived at the Ministry of the Interior in suitcases stuffed with banknotes. They are the most potentially damaging—andÃâà...
The Arab Weekly
March 25, 2018
Questions over Sarkozy's role intensified after investigative website Mediapart published a report in 2016 in which French-Lebanese businessman Ziad Takieddine claimed to have personally delivered suitcases stuffed with cash from Libya leader Muammar Qaddafi to the Sarkozy campaign. France's tiesÃâà...
The Independent
March 24, 2018
The son of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi is thought to be planning to stand for election as president of Libya, seven years after his father was overthrown and killed. Saif al-Islam Gaddafi was sentenced, in absentia, to death by firing squad for alleged crimes that included incitement to murder and rape.
Kontan
March 22, 2018
Permasalahan yang dihadapi Sarkorzy adalah tuduhan bahwa pemimpin Libya, Muammar Gaddafi menyokong kampanye Sarkorzy dengan pundi-pundi uang tunai jutaan euro, yang diselundupkan ke Paris lewat koper diplomatik. “Saya sudah membayar harga yang mahal untuk urusan ini. Saya kalahÃâà...
Mintpress News
March 22, 2018
The investigation, which began nearly five years ago, has focused on illegal campaign contributions Sarkozy's campaign received from Muammar Gaddafi, the former leader of Libya, who was brutally murdered following the UN-backed destruction of his government and country. The investigation intoÃâà...
Firstpost
March 22, 2018
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was charged on Wednesday over allegations that he received millions of euros towards his 2007 election campaign from the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Sarkozy has already been charged in two other cases. Here is a summary of the various scandalsÃâà...
The Siasat Daily
March 21, 2018
Saif who passed out from British University London Schools of Economics is considered the heir of Muammar Gaddafi. Though he was not on any official post during his father's rule, but he is considered the second powerful personality of the country. 45-year-old Saiful Islam enjoys the support of majorÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 21, 2018
Just over seven years ago, a NATO-led coalition militarily intervened in Libya to topple the country's leader, Muammar Gaddafi - a former ally of the west. With air support, anti-Gaddafi militants quickly swept across the country, and captured and killed Colonel Gaddafi. In modern-day Libya, the torture andÃâà...
NTV Uganda
March 20, 2018
The case is connected to accusations that Sarkozy received money from former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to fund his successful election bid in 2007, allegations he denies and has dismissed as "grotesque". The prosecution claims Sarkozy spent nearly double the legal limit of $24m on his lavishÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 20, 2018
PARIS (Reuters) - Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was questioned on Tuesday by police investigating whether late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi helped finance his 2007 election campaign. An official in the French judiciary said Sarkozy, 63, was held in custody in Nanterre, west of Paris.
Brown Political Review
March 17, 2018
The Arab Spring—which Amnesty International labeled an “unprecedented outburst of popular protests and demand for reform”—erupted in 2011 in neighboring Tunisia and inspired the gathering of rebel forces against Muammar Gaddafi's longstanding Jamahiriya government (Gaddafi's political system ofÃâà...
defenceWeb
March 16, 2018
Six years after the revolution that overthrew Muammar Gaddafi, Libya is split between rival governments while ports and beaches are largely in the hands of armed groups. Rear Admiral Enrico Credendino, chief of the EU naval mission in the Mediterranean, said Operation Sophia hopes to train 300 to 500Ãâà...
Daily Nation
March 15, 2018
Libya has descended into chaos since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi's regime in 2011. It has become a hub for hundreds of thousands of sub-Saharan African migrants trying to reach Europe by sea. The trafficking ring is alleged to include members of security services, leaders of migrant detention camps,Ãâà...
Sputnik International
March 9, 2018
The top diplomatic official was commenting on the report of the Vif weekly news outlet, claiming that 10 billion euros ($12.3 billion) out of 16.1 billion euros vanished from the bank accounts that had been frozen in line with the UN sanctions against late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and his family.
NewsX
March 8, 2018
$10 billion go missing from Muammar Gaddafi's seized bank accounts in Belgium ... An investigation into the frozen funds belonging to former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi has revealed that a colossal sum of at least $10 billion has been missing from the bank accounts of the deceased. The startlingÃâà...
PagalParrot
March 7, 2018
It was in July 2017 when on Instagram a photo created a huge buzz. This photo was related to none other than Bollywood's hottest diva Katrina Kaif. Why it created a huge stir? Well, it did so because in this picture Katrina was seen posing with Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Later, that picture has beenÃâà...
Arab News
February 26, 2018
After Muammar Qaddafi was overthrown and eventually killed, Khalifa Haftar, second right, dropped from view. He resurfaced in 2014 ... A former ally of Muammar Qaddafi, Haftar, 75, returned to Libya seven years ago from the US, to join the Nato-backed revolution that ended four decades of Qaddafi's rule.
Eyewitness News
February 26, 2018
PRETORIA - Bechir Saleh, the man known as Muammar Gaddafi's banker, is in intensive care at a Johannesburg hospital after being shot last Friday. South African authorities have not confirmed the attack on the man who invested more than $1 billion of Libyan oil money here. Ahead of the Libya-AfricanÃâà...
Middle East Eye
February 23, 2018
Libyan intelligence documents, disclosed as part of a British court case, have revealed fresh details about how the British government and its MI6 intelligence agency forged links and worked secretly with Muammar Gaddafi and his spy chiefs in the years after the 9/11 al-Qaeda attacks in the US in 2001.
The National
February 19, 2018
The regime of former Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi has contributed to presidential campaigns in the US, Ukraine and France, reported Asharq Al Awsat newspaper on Monday. The report said that the Qaddafi government put $5 million towards the campaign of a candidate who was running in the 2004Ãâà...
The Guardian
February 19, 2018
The global extent of MI6's cooperation with Muammar Gaddafi and Tony Blair's personal role in negotiating the alliance have emerged in previously secret documents released in a high court case over rendition. The Libyan files show that the then head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, flew to Tripoli in 2004 toÃâà...
TODAY.NG
February 18, 2018
Thousands of Libyans on Saturday marked the seventh anniversary of the start of protests that ousted former leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi. In the capital Tripoli, and across many cities in the North African country, thousands packed public squares where the authorities were organising concerts andÃâà...
Livemint
February 4, 2018
But it still has a long way to go to get back to where it was before Muammar Qaddafi was toppled in 2011. And the recovery is at risk. NOC chairman Mustafa Sanalla, speaking at a conference in London last week, told a story that sums it all up. He described how at the end of last year, he sent a small teamÃâà...
Sputnik International
December 31, 1999
Nicolas Sarkozy is planning to challenge an order that bans him from contacting his main accusers and allies or visiting countries such as Libya amid a judicial inquiry into allegations that Muammar Gaddafi could have financed his 2007 election campaign. The ex-president, who was in office from 2007 toÃâà...
The African Exponent
December 31, 1999
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was held in custody on Tuesday and questioned by magistrates investigating whether late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi helped finance his 2007 election campaign, an official in the French judiciary said. It is the second major judicial investigation to fall on theÃâà...
BBC News
December 31, 1999
The Libyan attorney general's office said the network included members of the security services, migrant detention camp leaders, and officials from African embassies in Libya. Libya has been in turmoil since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Power is dispersed between different militias and two rivalÃâà...
News24
December 31, 1999
Cape Town – Slain Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi's banker, linked by the United Nations to the payment of $800m (about R9.3bn at the current rand/dollar exchange rate) into a bank account in Kenya from one in South Africa, was wounded in a shooting in Atholl Oaklands, northern Johannesburg,Ãâà...
Daily Maverick
December 31, 1999
The news that Bashir Saleh Bashir, former chief of staff and reputed “banker” to the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, was shot last Friday in Johannesburg has again raised questions about what he is doing in South Africa. Bashir was attacked when he arrived home from OR Tambo InternationalÃâà...
