{"id":252555,"date":"2024-12-31T14:24:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/?p=252555"},"modified":"2024-12-31T14:24:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:24:56","slug":"exclusive-allegations-of-corruption-and-money-laundering-among-the-violations-uncovered-by-the-audit-bureau-at-al-wafa-bank-and-referred-to-the-prosecutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/exclusive-allegations-of-corruption-and-money-laundering-among-the-violations-uncovered-by-the-audit-bureau-at-al-wafa-bank-and-referred-to-the-prosecutor\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Allegations of Corruption and Money Laundering Among the Violations Uncovered by the Audit Bureau at Al-Wafa Bank and Referred to the Prosecutor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Our source has exclusively obtained a report from the Audit Bureau addressed to the Attorney General, detailing violations at Al-Wafa Bank involving documents, names, and numbers that suggest corruption and money laundering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The documents reveal major violations and suspicions regarding the use of funds at Al-Wafa Bank, leading to the referral of responsible parties for investigation. They also disclose that some imported goods received through Misrata Port were not delivered to the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The report highlights the details of letters of credit issued to Al-Daleel Financial Company via Al-Wafa Bank\u2019s branch, showing that the company obtained nine letters of credit amounting to a total of 80.712 million LYD, equivalent to $17.5 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to the report\u2019s findings, the bank branch executed the credits on December 13, 2022, deducting 9,336,860,000 LYD from the company\u2019s account. The funds were returned to the account two days later, on December 15 of the same year, and were used to open a new credit, in violation of a Central Bank of Libya circular. Furthermore, the bank branch allowed the return of the previously deducted funds to the company\u2019s account for the purpose of opening new credits, even though these funds belonged to the bank\u2019s general administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The report also notes an incident on July 26, 2021, where a credit value of 2,048,692,000 LYD was deducted from the company\u2019s account, and by August 4, 2021, the full amount was returned without any request from the company to cancel the credit. A data entry employee falsely recorded the transaction in the company\u2019s account statement under \u201ccredit cancellation\u201d to mislead auditors into believing the return was based on a customer request, which was untrue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Audit Bureau\u2019s report referred to the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office includes recommendations to investigate the following individuals:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The recommendations also call for forming a committee to review the legal files of exporting companies supplying goods via Al-Wafa Bank\u2019s branch, to identify the board members of these companies. Examples include \u201cForever Trade General Company\u201d and \u201cDiamond Stars Trading for Plastic and Nylon Materials,\u201d headquartered in the UAE, to establish potential links between the owners of exporting and importing companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The report cites Al-Mutawakkil Company<\/em>, one of the exporters, where a shareholder, Suleiman Omar Aqil, a Libyan national, owns 49% of the company\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our source has exclusively obtained a report from the Audit Bureau addressed to the Attorney General, detailing violations at Al-Wafa Bank involving documents, names, and numbers that suggest corruption and money laundering. The documents reveal major violations and suspicions regarding the use of funds at Al-Wafa Bank, leading to the referral of responsible parties for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":252581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[781,655,729,613],"class_list":["post-252555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corruption-files","category-news","tag-alwafa-bank","tag-audit-bureau","tag-corruption","tag-libya"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252555","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252595,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252555\/revisions\/252595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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