The cash funded Muatassim Gaddafi’s playboy lifestyle, with millions held in his various American Express and Visa credit card accounts. The three accounts at Bank of Valletta were held in the name of Capital Resources, a company owned by Gaddafi but whose name appeared as Muatasimbllah Muammar Abuminyar. The Libyan Attorney General had also accused Bank of Valletta of violating know-your-customer rules that should have prevented it from opening an account for Gaddafi in the first place. The Libyan Attorney General was represented by Shazoo Ghaznavi. “These funds were private funds, having nothing to do with the Libyan state.”Oikonomopoulos was assisted by lawyer Louis Cassar Pullicino.

Source: Libya Today June 28, 2022 14:58 UTC