2024-05-16 15:08:08
A latest report by “Kathimerini”, an historical Greek newspaper based in 1919, stated that the Greek authorities discovered a part of the banknotes that had been stolen from the Central Financial institution of Libya in Benghazi in 2017.
In keeping with the report, the banknotes had been found when a person tried to trade 40,000 euros at a department of the Financial institution of Greece within the metropolis of Larissa. However the worn banknotes he offered aroused the suspicions of the workers, and so they had been confiscated and confirmed to be a part of the Libyan stolen items.
The report indicated that Khalifa Haftar‘s forces seized the funds of the Central Financial institution of Benghazi in late 2017, and emptied its coffers, with out figuring out the destiny of those funds, estimated at roughly 159 million euros.
The report continued that though a part of the banknotes was broken by the water, this didn’t forestall them from being smuggled to a number of international locations, together with Greece.
The European Central Financial institution’s Banknotes Directorate had beforehand warned nationwide banks of the hazard of buying and selling these banknotes, and related instances had been handled in Belgium, France and Estonia.
Estonian studies beforehand indicated the involvement of Turkish and Russian “felony networks” in smuggling stolen banknotes from Libya.
Supply: Greek newspaper Kathimerini.
2024-05-16 15:08:08