2024-06-01 21:37:46
The African Protection Discussion board journal “AFRICOM” accused Russia of flooding Libyan markets with counterfeit forex in one other try to destabilize the nation.
The journal issued by the US army command in Africa, AFRICOM, mentioned that what it referred to as “Haftar’s authorities” flooded the nation with almost 12 billion dinars printed by the Russians between 2015 and 2020.
The journal added in an article on Tuesday that the Kremlin has a documented historical past of sending counterfeit forex to Khalifa Haftar, and it was printed on a farm close to Benghazi, it mentioned.
In 2016, the federal government in command of the Jap Area acquired one billion dinars from Russia after it requested that it’s printed, in accordance with what the journal reported.
In 2019, the Maltese authorities additionally intercepted a cargo of forex printed in Moscow on its method to the town of Tobruk, estimated at roughly 4 billion and 500 million {dollars}, together with one other cargo price 1.1 billion {dollars} that was destined for Haftar in 2020.
In response to the journal, the dinars had been used to pay the dues of Haftar’s fighters within the japanese area and through his assault on the capital, Tripoli, in 2019. Additionally they unfold all through Libya and brought on a rise in inflation, a devaluation of the dinar, and affected the official forex issued by the Central Financial institution in Tripoli.
Supply: African Protection Platform Journal “AFRICOM”
2024-06-01 21:37:46