The Department of Combating Economic Crimes and Money Laundering in Benghazi was able to “discover a gang whose criminal activity was specialized in forging checks and purchasing goods (home appliances and cars) in exchange for these checks.”
The Department of Combating Economic Crimes and Money Laundering of the Libyan government assigned by the House of Representatives said: “Following a report from the Wahda Bank regarding the receipt of a deposit of forged certified clearing checks, and after conducting investigations and gathering information, it became clear to us that unknown persons used several mobile phone chips, through which a network of victims was formed from drivers of transport vehicles and delivery services vehicles (delivery) to send and receive forged checks and purchase goods so that they would not be exposed, and through these drivers, household electrical goods were transported that were purchased in exchange for one of these checks worth ((400,000)) thousand dinars from a company in the city of Benghazi and were transported to the city of Tobruk and disappeared in the city of Tobruk.”
The administration statement added: “After intensifying the investigation, the information conducted by the work team consisting of the Investigation and Inquiry Department of the main administration and the Tobruk branch of the administration led to reaching the person who received the goods and arresting him after he was lured by members of the investigations of the Tobruk branch of the administration and transferred to the main administration in Benghazi, namely ((A.B.N)) and after recording his statements, he admitted and confessed that he received the goods in the city of Tobruk by using one of the phones of the expatriate workers and unloading them on board a truck inside one of the squares in the city so that no driver could know where they were located. They were then transferred to a warehouse in the city and from there to another warehouse in the city of Musaid, from where they were smuggled to Egypt and sold for less than their purchase price. He also admitted and confessed that the mastermind of this operation was two people imprisoned in the Kuwaiti Reform and Rehabilitation Institution. The first person is called ((N.S.F)) imprisoned on the case of impersonating an employee and forging documents, and the second person is called ((H.A.Q)) imprisoned on the case of incitement to prostitution, and that they did By carrying out this operation from inside the prison by directing a group of drivers via mobile phone chips and by using fake names to receive, deliver and deposit the forged checks and transport the goods to the city of Tobruk without their knowledge of the crime of forgery and fraud and that they intended to camouflage them so that the goods would not be found or he would be found.”
The statement continued: “He also acknowledged and confessed that the defendant ((NSF)) had previously carried out an operation before this operation in the same way by purchasing Toyota Tundra vehicles in exchange for forged deeds as well, and that he sold one of these vehicles to a showroom in the city of Tobruk, and the showroom also disposed of the vehicle, in addition to his confession to a group of other criminal activities. Accordingly, he was placed in legal custody and all legal procedures were taken and all of this was recorded in official reports and referred to the Public Prosecution for jurisdiction and action.”
((Forged documents lead to a criminal gang that practices fraud and deception)) The Department of Combating Economic Crimes and Money Laundering was able to…
Posted byDepartment of Combating Economic Crimes and Money LaunderingIn Sunday, August 18, 2024
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