Tripoli, 13 March 2014:

The Attorney General has denied issuing a red notice to Interpol for the arrest of former Prime Minister Ali Zeidan.

Head of the investigation department of the Attorney General office, Sadiq Al-Sour, told Libyan news agency LANA that media reports about the Interpol notice were completely untrue.

He said the only action taken by the Attorney General was to put Zeidan under a travel ban pending investigations into alleged financial irregularities.

Zeidan left the country on Tuesday after the General National Congress (GNC) passed a vote of no-confidence against him.