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Libya seeks to recover Gaddafi riches in S.Africa
Slain Libyan ex President Muammar Gadaffi. PHOTO / AFP
Johannesburg
Libya has called on the South African government to help it recover more than $1 billion (Sh85 billion) in diamonds, gold and cash allegedly stashed in the country by slain late President Muammar Gaddafi, a local newspaper reported on Sunday.
The Sunday Times newspaper said Libyan investigators had approached the Treasury with evidence that the assets were being held by four South African banks and two local security companies.
"The process of verifying the group's claim is underway," Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's spokesman Jabulani Sikhakhane was quoted as saying.
The newspaper published extracts of letters from Libya's justice and finance ministers to their South African counterparts seeking help in finding Gaddafi-linked assets which might have been "illegally possessed, obtained, looted, deposited or hidden in South Africa".
South Africa was opposed to NATO's military intervention in Libya during the rebel uprising against Gaddafi's regime.
The veteran leader was captured and killed in October 2011 while he was trying to flee his home town of Sirte.
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