The Head of the Investigations Bureau of the Attorney General’s Office in the Libyan capital, Al-Siddiq Al-Sour, announced the lasts outcomes of the investigations into crimes, murders, and human as well as fuel smuggling in Libya. Human and fuel smuggling Al-Sour explained in a presser on Wednesday that the AG issued 205 arrest warrants for […]
Libya’s naval forces on Thursday seized a Togo-flagged fuel tanker and arrested its Greek crew on the suspicion they planned to smuggle oil out of the country, a spokesman for the forces said. Libya’s western coast is a departure point for the smuggling of heavily subsidised gasoline to neighbours such as Tunisia and Malta, where […]
TRIPOLI, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) — The Libyan National Oil Corporation (NOC) confirmed on Monday that arrest warrants have been issued by the Attorney General against fuel smugglers in western Libya. “NOC commends the Attorney General’s decision to issue arrest warrants against more than 144 smugglers in western Libya,” NOC said in a statement. “Smuggling cost […]
Theft, corruption and injustice are getting dangerously close to strangling the newly reborn Libyan oil industry in its cradle. Should anyone outside Libya care? Yes — OPEC, Europe and the U.S., to name a few. On the face of it, National Oil Corp. had a good year in 2017, building on its successes of late […]
The illegal smuggling of oil from Libya to Malta is carried out by Libyan militias “in league” with Libyan authorities who pay Tunisian sailors €350 per voyage, according to an interview that appeared in a Libyan news portal. The interview, by one of these Tunisian sailors, who remained anynymous, has been reproduced in several Italian […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to hold talks this week with leaders from Bahrain and Libya. The White House says Trump will meet Thursday with Bahrain’s Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa. The crown prince is visiting Washington this week and has already met with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Trump plans to […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) The U.N. envoy for Libya said Thursday he is confident that competing parliaments in the North African country “are close to a consensus” on a framework to end their political standoff. Ghassan Salame told the Security Council that the U.N. has convened two sessions of the rival bodies to try to […]
Italian news agency Rainews24 has published a report in which it links Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder with the Libyan oil smuggling operations. In an article published earlier today, Rianews is saying that out of the various possible leads which could explain the motive behind Caruana Galizia’s murder, oil smuggling reports are deemed as “the most […]
A general view shows an oil refinery in Zawia, 55km west of Tripoli December 18, 2013. (Photo: Reuters) Smugglers have been stealing fuel in Libya and selling it on across Europe, according to Italian police. Italian police said on Wednesday that they had broken up a network selling low-quality Libyan diesel fuel worth €30 million […]
Not surprisingly, Crimean tanker GOEAST didn’t sink after being shelled by Libyan Coast Guard, and arrived on Malta outer anchorage, her AIS reappearing on Oct 11. According to Libya Herald, “Libyan navy spokesman Ayoun Gassem said that the tanker, owned by a Crimea based company but Comoros-flagged, had been fired upon after it refused demands […]