2024-07-03 06:01:52
Italian authorities introduced the confiscation of Chinese language Wing Loong navy drones, which had been intercepted at an Italian port, to stop their cargo to Khalifa Haftar’s forces.
The British newspaper, The Occasions, reported that the Italian police seized three containers loaded with weapons on June 18 by officers on the port of “Gioia Tauro” in southern Italy, after they had been unloaded from the cargo ship “MSC Area” coming from China.
The Occasions added that police additionally seized a second suspicious cargo in additional than three containers this weekend on board the MSC Apolline.
The Wing Loong drone was imagined to be loaded onto a ship certain for Benghazi, Libya, to be delivered to Khalifa Haftar, together with containers containing two surveillance stations, the newspaper reported. The containers had been seized by an area choose in Italy.
The cargo was tracked after intelligence from the USA, which is more and more involved about Haftar’s rising ties with Russia, and Moscow’s continued sending of weapons and troops by means of the port of Tobruk to bolster its navy presence in Africa.
This operation comes after two Libyan males in Canada (Fathi bin Ahmed Mahouk and Mahmoud Al-Suwaie Al-Sayeh) had been accused final April of conspiring to prepare the acquisition of Chinese language drones in alternate for shipments of Libyan oil.
Based on Canadian officers, the plan concerned promoting thousands and thousands of barrels of Libyan crude oil to China with out anybody figuring out, and supplying the 2 males with a Chinese language firm to hyperlink it with Haftar supporters to dealer the deal, noting that the Nationwide Oil Company was additionally concerned, based on the newspaper.
Based on the report, the operation might complicate Italian efforts to befriend Haftar, as Rome seeks to encourage him to sluggish migration from Libya to Italy.
Supply: The Occasions
2024-07-03 06:01:52