{"id":1141,"date":"2023-10-05T11:31:24","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T09:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/2023\/10\/05\/the-globe-and-mail-former-libyan-ambassador-arrested-in-benghazi-after-disclosure-of-secret-details\/"},"modified":"2023-10-05T11:31:24","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T09:31:24","slug":"the-globe-and-mail-former-libyan-ambassador-arrested-in-benghazi-after-disclosure-of-secret-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/the-globe-and-mail-former-libyan-ambassador-arrested-in-benghazi-after-disclosure-of-secret-details\/","title":{"rendered":"The Globe and Mail: Former Libyan Ambassador Arrested in Benghazi After Disclosure of Secret Details"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" dir=\"ltr\">The Canadian newspaper <em>The Globe and Mail<\/em> reported on Thursday that the former Libyan ambassador to Canada, Fathi Mohammed Al-Baja, was arrested after preserving documents related to billions of dollars that the late Muammar Gaddafi hid in Canadian bank accounts and a penthouse in Toronto owned by his son, Al-Saadi Gaddafi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" dir=\"ltr\">According to the Canadian newspaper, Al-Baja kept secret documents after leaving Ottawa because he was concerned about the possibility of money and property falling into the hands of corrupt officials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" dir=\"ltr\">The newspaper continued by saying that Al-Baja was arrested on Sunday afternoon by the Internal Security Service in the city of Benghazi after he refused to hand over secret records to Libyan officials, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked the newspaper not to reveal his identity because his safety was in danger. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" dir=\"ltr\">In detail, the Committee of Experts on Libya confirmed, through previous reports from the Canadian newspaper The Global and Mail, about Al-Saadi Gaddafi\u2019s secret plan to sell his apartment in Toronto, in violation of the asset freeze. The investigation also revealed the Turkish government\u2019s involvement with him. These developments come at a critical time for Libya, which is preparing to conduct its first elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail reported on Thursday that the former Libyan ambassador to Canada, Fathi Mohammed Al-Baja, was arrested after preserving documents related to billions of dollars that the late Muammar Gaddafi hid in Canadian bank accounts and a penthouse in Toronto owned by his son, Al-Saadi Gaddafi. According to the Canadian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[523],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reports","tag-arrestcanadagaddafilibyalibyan-ambassador"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}