Libya’s Attorney General, Al-Siddiq Al-Sour announced that a number of public servants, and teachers had been referred for administrative investigations. He pointed out that this “might reach the criminal investigations unit, in the event that negligence and abuse of power are proven.”
Al-Sour confirmed that his office received verbal notification from the Evaluation and Examinations Department of a breach within the high school examination halls. This led to exam questions being leaked, solved, and returned to the students, “which constitutes a crime of cheating and harming the public interest.”
He explained that his office responded to the communication, in coordination with the Information Security Department of the Ministry of Interior.
Al-Sour said that “there are shortcomings in the examination control committee, because the issue began within the examination halls.”
He noted that “if there had been no negligence, this breach would not have occurred. The names of the cheating students should have been identified, and been barred from taking the exams.”