The Libyan Minister of Culture, Mabrouka Toghi, was released after she had been held under detention by order of the Public Prosecutor pending an investigation against her over allegations of corruption.
According to a brief statement by the Attorney-General’s office, Tougi was accused of unauthorized spending of state funds, forging documents and obstruction of audit review.
Tougi was the latest minister in the government of Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh to be investigated for corruption. Education Minister Musa Al Maqrif was also arrested over his ministry’s failure to authorize the spending of allocated funds for school textbooks.