Our source obtains anti-corruption documents that prove the embezzlement of 73,500 million dollars and the National Unity Government bears the responsibility

Our source obtained several correspondences related to the Anti-Corruption Authority, the first of which includes their correspondence with the Director of the Banking Operations Department at the Central Bank of Libya, asking him to refer documents in which 73,500 million dinars was transferred to Talc Investment company for the supply of the Corona vaccine.

The Anti-Corruption Authority also addressed the Ministry of Health and demanded it to report on the person authorized to sign on the account of the Ministry of Health, and to provide him with documents supporting the disbursement of the transaction that was signed by the Minister of Health and the Minister of Finance, and the basis on which the Minister of Finance Khaled Al-Mabrouk signed on the account of the Ministry of Health, and provided him the documents supporting the disbursement of any transaction in which the foreign transfer took place during 2021.

For its part, the Ministry of Health responded according to a correspondence obtained by our source, which included that the authorized signatories at the Ministry’s office are the Financial Controller Ahmed Souissi and the Minister of Health Ali Al-Zanati, and that the basis on which the signature of the Minister of Finance was built is that the procedure was carried out outside the Ministry of Health, with the transmission of documents related to the supply of the vaccine.

Our source obtained also and exclusively the correspondence of the Deputy Prime Minister of the National Unity Government to the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya, during which he is required to execute a payment permit with a figure of 73.500 million dollars and transfer the value to the beneficiary, knowing that the Audit Bureau has reserved the approval, due to suspicions according to another correspondence of the Bureau previously published on Sada.

In the same context, Abu Janah pledged, on behalf of the National Unity Government, to follow up on the procedures with the Audit Bureau and to assume responsibility.

Our source obtained exclusively from the Tripoli Anti-Corruption Commission memorandum, which includes monitoring violations of vaccine supply, including the transfer of 73,500 million dollars, where the authority said that this issue has cost the treasury huge sums, and that the supply of 3 million Sinopharm vaccinations was not needed by the Ministry, because there is a stockpile of the vaccine, and the stamp tax has not been deducted in the amount of 3.167 million in violation of the tax law, and that the income tax is in the range of 15% that is to say 95.033 million, adding that the exaggerations in prices, as the price of one vaccination is 24,500 dollars is not acceptable, and according to the information, the real price is between 7 and 10 dollars, the average is 8 dollars, and the difference is 16,500 dollars. This corruption is borne by the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister of Health, the Minister of Finance, the Director of the Internal Audit Office at the Ministry of Health, the Financial Controller at the Ministry of Health, and the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for Technical Affairs and the Department.

Our source also obtained correspondence proving that the Minister of Finance in the Government of National Unity addressed the Governor of the Central Bank of Libya to cancel the validation of its signature at the Ministry of Health after completing the transfer procedures and re-approving the signature of the Financial Controller of the Ministry of Health.

Our source had obtained also exclusively from the correspondence of the Minister of Finance Khaled Al-Mabrouk and the Minister of Health Ali Al-Zanati to make an external transfer of 73.500 million dollars, in exchange for the supply of 3 million doses of Corona vaccine, with a deduction of the equivalent in dinars from the account of the Ministry of Health Khaled Al-Mabrouk, where the Minister of Finance made a violation of the state’s financial law by signing instead of the financial controller at the Ministry of Health, with the correspondence of the Tripoli Audit Bureau, Director of the Banking Operations Department at the Central Bank of Libya, which includes the Bureau showing some information and indications to cancel the signatures of authorized persons on the emergency account of the Ministry of Health and authorize non-specialized persons in violation of the legislation and regulations Procedures for disposing of public funds and other than their competence to the original and the existence of transactions of questionable integrity.

The Bureau demanded that the disbursement of any transactions on the aforementioned account should be temporarily suspended until the validity of what was stated and informed of the measures taken in particular, with a bank account statement showing all exchange operations from the date of suspension of work by a decision to impose the accompanying oversight restriction on the emergency account at the Ministry.

Our source also investigated Talc Investment company, which was contracted to bring the vaccine, and it turned out that it is not a pharmaceutical company and has been established since 2020, with confirmation that it is an Emirati company run by a Libyan official.