The Libyan Attorney General decided today, Tuesday, to provisionally detain the Libyan Ambassador to Belgium, Amal Al-Jarari, in connection with an ongoing investigation. The Attorney General confirmed her involvement and violations of procedures, specifically her deliberate contribution to a case of seeking illegal benefits and embezzling public funds, according to a statement from the Libyan Public Prosecutor's Office.
The Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also decided to terminate the secondment of Ambassador Amal Al-Jarari to Belgium due to her involvement in corruption cases involving obtaining large sums of money through illegal means.
A newly released recording features Ambassador Amal Al-Jarari with her secretary, Nadima Al-Qreitli, who begs her not to escalate the issue of **thefts and corruption** and claims she is acting on instructions. The recording also mentions new names: Walid, Abubakar, and Abdul Ghafar! Overall, as she stated, her situation has ended, and she will no longer be able to serve in Libya.
A few days ago, Libyan media published a leaked audio recording of Ambassador Amal Al-Jarari, revealing her involvement in a corruption case. Her secretary, Nadima Al-Qreitli, confirmed the authenticity of the leaked recording, noting that she had reported to oversight bodies in Libya last July regarding a request from the ambassador to transfer $200,000 to her personal account from funds allocated for patient treatment.
Al-Qreitli added during a call-in on the program "Flosna" on Al-Wasat Channel that the circulating leak on social media is not fabricated; it was received from the ambassador’s phone and she documented it with a lawyer's office, asserting that she bears legal responsibility for it.
The Libyan Attorney General, advisor Al-Siddiq Al-Sour, confirmed that a rapid investigation into the corruption and embezzlement of patient funds at the Belgian embassy by the accused ambassador Amal Al-Jarari has been opened, indicating that results of the investigation will be announced in the coming hours.
In the audio recording, the Libyan ambassador requested her secretary, based on a request from the embassy's financial auditor, to prepare a fake invoice in the name of a fictional cancer patient with high treatment costs, which would be sent from the Libyan embassy in Belgium to the Libyan Ministry of Health for signature, allowing her to withdraw funds from the embassy's health deposit account in Belgium while avoiding legal repercussions.
During her interview with Al-Wasat Channel, Nadima Al-Qreitli stated that the Libyan ambassador to Belgium summoned her to her home on April 4, 2022, and spoke to her about needing money for a personal issue, claiming there is a budget item under a political title from which €300,000 is allocated to each ambassador at the start of their appointment. However, the ambassador informed her that the Central Bank of Libya had not sent this transfer, and she felt compelled to obtain €200,000 from the Libyan health deposit in Tripoli.
