Officials of the Libyan General Training Center of the Ministry of Education were arrested on charges of embezzling public money, and forging official documents, according to the Attorney General’s Office.
The Office said in a statement that the Anti-Corruption Prosecution in the Libyan Court of Appeals investigated a complaint filed by an employee of the General Training Center.
The investigations discovered that the accused “had committed crimes of seizing public money, obtaining material benefits in violation of laws, spending public money in a manner other than its intended purpose.”
They also have been accused of “forging official documents required by the Libyan Administrative Contract Regulations, and misusing the authority of their job.”
“After interrogating the accused, the Libyan investigator ordered their pretrial detention,” the statement explained.
Last month, Libyan 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.”