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Libyan Investment Authority

Libya, United States
Deloitte takes a plunge into Libyan oil for Washington

Auditing giant Deloitte has just signed two contracts with the United States to carry out studies on the Libyan oil sector.

Subscribers only Business 26.10.2021

In Focus | Libya
How Tripoli's ritzy 'Green Zone' Palm City rides the storm

Built just before the fall of the Gaddafi regime by the Pisani family-owned Maltese group Corinthia, the 413 villas of Palm City have become the place most diplomats and humanitarian expats in Tripoli call home.

Subscribers only Business, Diplomacy 18.10.2021

Libya
Ex-Gaddafi PR man Sami Jallouli has NOC assets seized in Paris

After having long worked for the Gaddafi regime, Geneva-based Tunisian consultant Sami Jallouli has joined forces with two other creditors of Libya to seize the National Oil Corp's shares in Mabruk Oil Operations, a joint venture between the NOC and France's TotalEnergies.

Subscribers only Energy, Business 11.10.2021

Spotlight | France, Libya
After Al Kharafi and Sorelec cases, huge new arbitration threatens LIA's French assets again

Plastic surgery specialist Aymen Boujbel's Tunisian import-export business Siba Plast is trying to seize €280m in assets from the Libyan Investment Authority through a claim on a prison construction contract signed with Libya's National Transition Council in 2012.

Subscribers only Business 01.10.2021

Libya
How Medavia won the race to reopen a regular Europe-Libya flight route

The small airline, a Maltese subsidiary of the Libyan sovereign fund LIA, shot past Alitalia and Air Malta to start up its route on 20 September.

Subscribers only Business 28.09.2021

Libya
As top French court set to rule on Al Kharafi affair, LIA turns to Havas for PR

The Paris Court of Cassation is today due to decide on the Kuwaiti construction group's bid to seize hundreds of millions of euros of the Libyan Investment Authority's French assets. Meanwhile, Havas is helping the LIA with its communications.

Subscribers only Business 14.09.2021

The Fnac des Ternes building is one of the assets concerned.

Libya
What really went on behind NOC boss Sanalla's pseudo sacking

The chairman of the Libyan national oil company was suspended then brought back in the space of ten days. The whole affair proved to be an act staged by prime minister Dabaiba with help from his ally, the vice minister of hydrocarbons Al Abbar.

Subscribers only Energy 09.09.2021

From left to right: Libyan Minister of Hydrocarbons Mohamed Aoun, Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity (GNU) Abdelhamid Dabaiba and NOC boss Mustafa Sanalla.

Spotlight | Libya
Dabaiba reboots private investigators chasing Gaddafi loot

Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba took control of the institutions tasked with identifying and recovering the massive amounts of money misappropriated during the Gaddafi era. And since the beginning of his term in office, he has also contacted some of the private investigators who had offered their services to previous Libyan governments.

Subscribers only Politics 28.07.2021

Lybian Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba.

Spotlight | Libya
One billion dollars keeps Ali Mahmoud Hassan at LIA helm

The chairman of Libya's sovereign wealth fund will remain in office in exchange for a payment of one billion dollars to the government. The money is a godsend for Prime Minister Abdelhamid Dabaiba, who may also be able to place his allies in the fund's subsidiaries.

Subscribers only Politics 02.07.2021

Tunisia
DLA Piper bags contract to lead hunt for Ben Ali assets

Tunisia's cash-strapped government has tasked DLA Piper law firm with the global coordination of procedures to recover the ill-gotten assets of ousted president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali's family.

Subscribers only Politics 25.05.2021

Libya
Macron leavesel-Menfi and Libya off guest list for Parisian summits

The president of the Libyan Presidential Council Mohamed al-Manfi is disappointed at not being invited to the summit on African economies and the international conference on supporting the Sudanese transition being organised by Emmanuel Macron in Paris.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 14.05.2021

Emmanuel Macron with Mohamed al-Menfi at the Elysee Palace, March 2021.

Nigeria
OPL 245: Abuja still in dispute with JPMorgan over $875m wired to Dan Etete

Though the court in Milan acquitted ENI over its 2011 acquisition of the OPL 245 oil block, the High Court in London is taking a closer look at the transaction.

Subscribers only Energy 13.05.2021

Libya
Al Kabir handpicks new Libyan Foreign Bank committee

The governor of the Central Bank of Libya, Al Kabir, didn't take the trouble to consult with his board before appointing the new management team for Libyan Foreign Bank, keeper of the country's oil revenue.

Subscribers only Politics 15.04.2021

Central Bank of Libya Governor Al Seddik Omar Al Kabir.

Libya
Tripoli bids to overturn €50m compensation payment to Cengiz in Paris

On 16 March, Libya's action to contest the arbitration ruling ordering it to pay out nearly €50m to the Turkish construction firm Cengiz will be considered by the French courts.

Subscribers only Business 11.03.2021

Kuwait, Libya
Paris FNAC store case to be heard by France's Court of Cassation in March

Kuwaiti construction group Al Kharafi, which is seeking $1bn in compensation from the Libyan Investment Authority following the cancellation of a big property project in Janzour, has had seized a number of the authority's assets in France, among them the FNAC store in Paris's Avenue des Ternes.

Subscribers only Business 20.01.2021

The FNAC store on Paris' Avenue des Ternes.

Libya
LIA doesn't let up on Crowne Plaza in UK

The Libyan Investment Authority wants to recover the £12m it invested in 2010 for the construction of a hotel in England but the accused party's lawyers deny that their client conspired against the fund.

Subscribers only Business 10.12.2020

Central African Republic, Libya
Tripoli and Bangui at daggers drawn over luxury hotel

The Plaza Ledger hotel, the place to be in Bangui, is the prize in a bitter battle between its owner, the Libyan state, and its manager, Zeyad Alzarzour Khalifa, who has the backing of the Central African government.

Subscribers only Business 27.11.2020

Libya
Libyan Foreign Bank: to stay in power, Sarraj wrests LFB back from Central bank boss al-Kabir

Fayez Sarraj hopes to use the lack of any political agreement on Libya's future to keep his job. He is seeking to shore up his position by bringing national financial institutions under his sway, with the help of National Oil Corp boss Mustafa Sanalla.

Free access Politics 27.11.2020

Libya
Al Kabir places his men at head of Libyan Foreign Bank to keep eye on petrodollars

The Central Bank of Libya governor has positioned his strongmen on the provisional board of the LFB, which handles all of NOC's petrodollars, as part of his power struggle against Prime Minister Fayez Sarraj.

Subscribers only Business 26.10.2020

The governor of the Libyan central bank, Al Seddik Omar Al Kabir.

France, Kuwait, Libya
Al Kharafi affair: Paris opposes unfreezing of Libyan Investment Authority fund's French assets

The Directorate General of the French Treasury has refused to release the assets of the Libyan sovereign wealth fund claimed by the Kuwaiti group in its €1bn dispute with Libya. These assets include the Fnac building in Paris' Ternes district, and sums held with Société Générale.

Free access Diplomacy 21.10.2020

The Fnac des Ternes building is part of the property concerned by the dispute.

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Ivory Coast
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Libyan Investment Authority

Libya, United States
Deloitte takes a plunge into Libyan oil for Washington

In Focus | Libya
How Tripoli's ritzy 'Green Zone' Palm City rides the storm

Libya
Ex-Gaddafi PR man Sami Jallouli has NOC assets seized in Paris

Spotlight | France, Libya
After Al Kharafi and Sorelec cases, huge new arbitration threatens LIA's French assets again

Libya
How Medavia won the race to reopen a regular Europe-Libya flight route

Libya
As top French court set to rule on Al Kharafi affair, LIA turns to Havas for PR

Libya
What really went on behind NOC boss Sanalla's pseudo sacking

Spotlight | Libya
Dabaiba reboots private investigators chasing Gaddafi loot

Spotlight | Libya
One billion dollars keeps Ali Mahmoud Hassan at LIA helm

Tunisia
DLA Piper bags contract to lead hunt for Ben Ali assets

Libya
Macron leavesel-Menfi and Libya off guest list for Parisian summits

Nigeria
OPL 245: Abuja still in dispute with JPMorgan over $875m wired to Dan Etete

Libya
Al Kabir handpicks new Libyan Foreign Bank committee

Libya
Tripoli bids to overturn €50m compensation payment to Cengiz in Paris

Kuwait, Libya
Paris FNAC store case to be heard by France's Court of Cassation in March

Libya
LIA doesn't let up on Crowne Plaza in UK

Central African Republic, Libya
Tripoli and Bangui at daggers drawn over luxury hotel

Libya
Libyan Foreign Bank: to stay in power, Sarraj wrests LFB back from Central bank boss al-Kabir

Libya
Al Kabir places his men at head of Libyan Foreign Bank to keep eye on petrodollars

France, Kuwait, Libya
Al Kharafi affair: Paris opposes unfreezing of Libyan Investment Authority fund's French assets

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Libyan Investment Authority

Libya, United States Deloitte takes a plunge into Libyan oil for Washington

In Focus | Libya How Tripoli's ritzy 'Green Zone' Palm City rides the storm

Libya Ex-Gaddafi PR man Sami Jallouli has NOC assets seized in Paris

Spotlight | France, Libya After Al Kharafi and Sorelec cases, huge new arbitration threatens LIA's French assets again

Libya How Medavia won the race to reopen a regular Europe-Libya flight route

Libya As top French court set to rule on Al Kharafi affair, LIA turns to Havas for PR

Libya What really went on behind NOC boss Sanalla's pseudo sacking

Spotlight | Libya Dabaiba reboots private investigators chasing Gaddafi loot

Spotlight | Libya One billion dollars keeps Ali Mahmoud Hassan at LIA helm

Tunisia DLA Piper bags contract to lead hunt for Ben Ali assets

Libya Macron leavesel-Menfi and Libya off guest list for Parisian summits

Nigeria OPL 245: Abuja still in dispute with JPMorgan over $875m wired to Dan Etete

Libya Al Kabir handpicks new Libyan Foreign Bank committee

Libya Tripoli bids to overturn €50m compensation payment to Cengiz in Paris

Kuwait, Libya Paris FNAC store case to be heard by France's Court of Cassation in March

Libya LIA doesn't let up on Crowne Plaza in UK

Central African Republic, Libya Tripoli and Bangui at daggers drawn over luxury hotel

Libya Libyan Foreign Bank: to stay in power, Sarraj wrests LFB back from Central bank boss al-Kabir

Libya Al Kabir places his men at head of Libyan Foreign Bank to keep eye on petrodollars

France, Kuwait, Libya Al Kharafi affair: Paris opposes unfreezing of Libyan Investment Authority fund's French assets

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Ivory Coast
French investigation sends tremors through Abidjan's political class

Libya
From Tripoli to Benghazi, Turkish trader BGN's oil odyssey

Libya, United States
Deloitte takes a plunge into Libyan oil for Washington

In Focus | Libya
How Tripoli's ritzy 'Green Zone' Palm City rides the storm

Libya
Ex-Gaddafi PR man Sami Jallouli has NOC assets seized in Paris

Spotlight | France, Libya
After Al Kharafi and Sorelec cases, huge new arbitration threatens LIA's French assets again

Libya
How Medavia won the race to reopen a regular Europe-Libya flight route

Libya
As top French court set to rule on Al Kharafi affair, LIA turns to Havas for PR

Libya
What really went on behind NOC boss Sanalla's pseudo sacking

Spotlight | Libya
Dabaiba reboots private investigators chasing Gaddafi loot

Spotlight | Libya
One billion dollars keeps Ali Mahmoud Hassan at LIA helm

Tunisia
DLA Piper bags contract to lead hunt for Ben Ali assets

Libya
Macron leavesel-Menfi and Libya off guest list for Parisian summits

Nigeria
OPL 245: Abuja still in dispute with JPMorgan over $875m wired to Dan Etete

Libya
Al Kabir handpicks new Libyan Foreign Bank committee

Libya
Tripoli bids to overturn €50m compensation payment to Cengiz in Paris

Kuwait, Libya
Paris FNAC store case to be heard by France's Court of Cassation in March

Libya
LIA doesn't let up on Crowne Plaza in UK

Central African Republic, Libya
Tripoli and Bangui at daggers drawn over luxury hotel

Libya
Libyan Foreign Bank: to stay in power, Sarraj wrests LFB back from Central bank boss al-Kabir

Libya
Al Kabir places his men at head of Libyan Foreign Bank to keep eye on petrodollars

France, Kuwait, Libya
Al Kharafi affair: Paris opposes unfreezing of Libyan Investment Authority fund's French assets