Former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s family members may have used the Libyan embassy in Belgium to launder government funds before the country slid into civil war last year, a Belgian financial fraud watchdog said on Friday.
“It’s more than a suspicion,” the watchdog’s president Jean-Claude Delepiere told Reuters.
The Libyan treasury transferred about 1.5 million euros ($1.97 million) to its embassy in Brussels, which was then mostly withdrawn in cash, Belgium’s money-laundering watchdog said in its annual report.
Detailed news link: here
Annual report of Belgian FIU (in French) : here