Aug 23 Nigel Ash

Multi-million euro lawsuit filed against Maltese company over SUVs

By Hadi FornajiTripoli, 23 August:A Libyan organisation has sought to freeze assets of a Maltese company which it claims did not fulfil a €63.6 millio...

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Eni stake handed back to Libya
Jul 25 Nigel Ash

Eni stake handed back to Libya

Tripoli, 25 July:Italy is continuing to unfreeze seized Libyan assets, worth LD 2.04 billion (€1.3 billion) held by the Libyan investment Authority an...

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Canada may still have some Qaddafi-era assets
Jul 17 Nigel Ash

Canada may still have some Qaddafi-era assets

by Hadi Fornaji. Tripoli, 17 July:The Canadian government seized some $2.2 billion of Libyan assets held by members of the Qaddafi regime in their co...

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Qaddafi property on Italian island seized
May 17 Michel Cousins

Qaddafi property on Italian island seized

Tripoli, 17 May:A hotel complex and land belonging to the Qaddafi family on the Italian island of Pantelleria between Sicily and Tunisia were sized on...

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May 2 Michel Cousins

New laws authorise seizure of Qaddafi family assets, criminalise support for him.

Tripoli, 2 May 2012:The NTC has approved a law criminalizing any glorification of Muammar Qadaffi or any support for him or the ex-regime.Also passed...

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LAP GreenN's Zamtel stake - Lusaka court delays decision
Apr 17 Nigel Ash

LAP GreenN's Zamtel stake - Lusaka court delays decision

Tripoli, 16 April 2012:The Zambian High Court has agreed to hear Libya’s appeal against a lower court’s refusal to freeze the majority stake in teleph...

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Fighting in Benghazi over 100s of Toyotas
Apr 12 Michel Cousins

Fighting in Benghazi over 100s of Toyotas

By Maha EllawatiBenghazi, April 12There were armed clashes on Wednesday at a farm in the Hawari district, close the headquarters of the Benghazi Secur...

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Qaddafi family protests Italian asset seizures
Mar 30 Nigel Ash

Qaddafi family protests Italian asset seizures

Tripoli: March 30Lawyers for the Qaddafi family today protested at Italy’s seizure of $1.5 billion of assets, frozen last year on UN instructions aft...

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Zambia suffers downgrade after nationalising Libyan-owned telco
Mar 21 Nigel Ash

Zambia suffers downgrade after nationalising Libyan-owned telco

By Libya Herald reporters.Tripoli, 21 March 2012:In the wake of its nationalisation of the Libyan-owned telephone company Zamtel, Zambia has seen its...

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Mar 19 Michel Cousins

Libya sues Zambian government over seized telecoms company

Tripoli, 19 March 2012:LAP GreenN, the Libyan Investment Authority’s international telecommunications arm, went to the Zambian High Court in Lusaka on...

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