Libya orders arrest of second minister over alleged graft

Libyan prosecutors ordered the culture minister detained on Wednesday as part of an investigation into alleged graft of state funds, a week after arresting the education minister in a similar case. Prosecutors had questioned Culture Minister Mabrouka Touki and ordered her detained on charges of “falsifying official documents in order to complicate the processes of review and oversight of public spending,” it said in a statement. This relates to alleged graft over a contract for maintenance works on ministry buildings which had already been refurbished last year. Touki, an academic with a degre…

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