Imprisonment of former officials in the Sahari Bank branch, Omar Al-Mukhtar.

Tripoli: The Tripoli Court of Appeal issued a ruling on Thursday, to imprison former officials in the Sahari Bank branch – Omar Al-Mukhtar, who stole two million dinars. The first and second convicts were sentenced to four years’ imprisonment, and the third and fourth convicts were sentenced to three years’ imprisonment, they were fined twice the embezzled amount.

According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office today, Friday, the prosecution concluded that, the convicts had accessed the system of accounts of customers of the bank branch and intended to embezzle two million three hundred and eighty dinars, by approving banking operations conducted on the customers’ accounts, and taking two copies of cash withdrawals using bank check numbers not included in the bank’s system, and conducting Internal bank transfers without a request from the account managers.

Source: Libyan News Agency