{"id":253241,"date":"2025-03-07T00:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/?p=253241"},"modified":"2025-03-10T00:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T22:11:16","slug":"exclusive-al-wahsh-comments-on-the-central-bank-of-libyas-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/exclusive-al-wahsh-comments-on-the-central-bank-of-libyas-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Al-Wahsh Comments on the Central Bank of Libya\u2019s Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Economic expert Saber Al-Wahsh exclusively told our source about the Central Bank of Libya\u2019s recent statement, describing the figures in the report on revenues and expenditures from January 1, 2025, to February 28, 2025, as concerning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that total foreign currency revenues amounted to 3.6 billion USD, while expenditures were 6.1 billion USD, resulting in a deficit of 2.5 billion USD. Despite total public expenditures being 8.4 billion LYD (about 1.5 billion USD), he questioned, \u201cWhere do these funds, chasing dollars, come from?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Wahsh further explained that nearly 3 billion USD of foreign currency was requested for personal purposes, most of it likely being sought for profit through selling it on the parallel market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He concluded, &#8220;Where do these funds come from to request such a huge amount of hard currency on the parallel market? We don\u2019t want to create noise over this publication, but this situation is unsustainable. I believe the Central Bank is worried, but it\u2019s concealing its concerns in hopes of an improvement.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic expert Saber Al-Wahsh exclusively told our source about the Central Bank of Libya\u2019s recent statement, describing the figures in the report on revenues and expenditures from January 1, 2025, to February 28, 2025, as concerning. He added that total foreign currency revenues amounted to 3.6 billion USD, while expenditures were 6.1 billion USD, resulting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":253242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[628,895,613,690],"class_list":["post-253241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-central-bank","tag-expenditures","tag-libya","tag-revenues"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253241","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=253241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253243,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253241\/revisions\/253243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}