{"id":253829,"date":"2025-05-08T12:36:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/?p=253829"},"modified":"2025-05-08T12:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T10:36:32","slug":"exclusive-al-zantouti-if-the-deportation-news-is-true-libya-will-top-the-global-economic-crime-charts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/exclusive-al-zantouti-if-the-deportation-news-is-true-libya-will-top-the-global-economic-crime-charts\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Al-Zantouti: If the Deportation News Is True\u2026 Libya Will Top the Global Economic Crime Charts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Financial expert Khaled Al-Zantouti told our source in an exclusive statement: <em>&#8220;If the news about deporting migrants with criminal records to Libya is true, it would be an economic catastrophe that could reshape Libya\u2019s economic and financial structure, firmly placing it on the global map of economic crimes in all their forms.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added: &#8220;<em>Our international reputation in money laundering would be strengthened. Libya would become the international stock exchange hub for global currency trading. International mafia criminal networks would form inside Libya, exploiting our wide coasts and borders to enhance global smuggling, turning Libya into the world\u2019s capital of (smuggling economies).<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said: &#8220;<em>Libya would become a global center for exchanging stolen and counterfeit currencies. It would become the undisputed capital of global oil smuggling and an international distribution hub for narcotics. Libya would replace Calabria as the base for the \u2018Ndrangheta\u2019 organization.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He continued: &#8220;<em>We wouldn\u2019t be surprised if we soon have a \u201cCosa Libya,\u201d mirroring the \u201cCosa Nostra,\u201d the infamous criminal organization that emerged in Sicily in the mid-19th century. And don\u2019t be surprised if we one day have a \u201cLibyan Luciano\u201d feeding intelligence to the U.S.! On the other hand, the \u201csupporters\u201d might say: our balance of payments will improve significantly, jobs will be created, and Libya will become a global transit trade center!<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He concluded by saying: &#8220;<em>If true, gentlemen, this is the trade of nations \u2014 when the fools become decision-makers! (And I don\u2019t generalize.) We pray the news is not true.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial expert Khaled Al-Zantouti told our source in an exclusive statement: &#8220;If the news about deporting migrants with criminal records to Libya is true, it would be an economic catastrophe that could reshape Libya\u2019s economic and financial structure, firmly placing it on the global map of economic crimes in all their forms.&#8220; He added: &#8220;Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":253830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[636,613,907,932],"class_list":["post-253829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-economy","tag-libya","tag-migrants","tag-united-states"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253829","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=253829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253831,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253829\/revisions\/253831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sada.ly\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}