The Tripoli-based Government of National Unity (GNU) is asking Washington to help it recover tens of billions of dollars in state assets that it alleges were stolen by Libya’s former dictator Muammar Gaddafi and his cronies and stashed around the world, Wall Street Journal reported.
The Libyan officials say family members and others close to Gaddafi looted government coffers of cash, gold and rare antiquities, according to WSJ.
A 2016 study by Berlin-based Transparency International estimates as much as $120 billion was taken.