A Tripoli Court of Appeal – Criminal Division – has sentenced eleven employees of the National Commercial Bank branch at Tripoli Central Hospital after convicting them of embezzling 29 million Libyan dinars from the bank’s certified cheques account.
According to a statement released Monday by the Office of the Attorney General, the court handed 13-year prison terms to the first and second defendants, along with permanent revocation of their civil rights and legal capacity.
The third, fourth, and fifth defendants received eight-year prison sentences, with the additional penalty of civil rights suspension during imprisonment and for one year thereafter.
Defendants seven, eight, nine, and eleven were sentenced to four years in prison, while the tenth was given a two-year term. The sixth defendant received a one-year suspended sentence.
The court ordered all defendants—except the sixth—to return the embezzled 29 million dinars and imposed fines totalling 58 million dinars. Furthermore, it ruled the confiscation of the first defendant’s real estate, which includes a building in Al-Dhahra, an apartment in Abu Harida, and two plots of land in Hay Al-Andalus and Gargaresh.
