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A Belgian judge has issued an international arrest warrant for a senior Libyan official as part of an investigation into the management of Libyan assets frozen in Belgium after the fall of the Gaddafi regime in 2011. The Brussels prosecutor’s office confirmed the warrant to AFP on Friday, after it was issued this month, according to media reports. The official targeted is Ali Mahmoud Hassan, chairman of the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), the sovereign wealth fund responsible for managing Libya’s assets and foreign investments. Those funds were frozen in 2011 by the UN to avoid possible the…