The Attorney General’s Office announced last Wednesday (24 January) that the investigative authorities had thwarted the attempt to seize LD 25 million from the National Commercial Bank (NCB) by a conspiring group headed by the NCB’s Internal Audit Officer at its Orouba branch in eastern Libya.
The investigating authority have initiated a criminal case against the defendants, including an employee authorized to manage the bank branch accounts, an employee at the Central Bank of Libya and a military person.
The investigation revealed they were involved in an organized group whose members designed a plan to access the database of the NCB, falsifying bank account data, by including numbers that exceed the actual credit balances, then making financial transfers worth twenty-five million dinars.
The discovery of their plans thwarted their criminal efforts. The investigator ordered the pretrial detention of the NCB Audit Official, the bank branch accounts manager, the military person, and is prosecuting the remaining contributors to the incident.