Unofficial Libyan currency found in Malta: The Headlines – The Times of Malta

The Times leads with the discovery of two containers full of unofficial Libyan currency that were likely on their way to the breakaway government led by Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar. Investigators believe the money was printed by a Russian-owned mint.

The Times reports “Malta has seized a massive shipment of an unofficial Libyan currency believed to have been destined for military strongman Khalifa Haftar who is leading an offensive south of Tripoli.

Sources involved in the country’s national security sector confirmed that two 2,000-cubic-foot containers packed full of the recently-introduced currency were discovered at the end of September when the shipment stopped in Malta.

The cash is thought to have originated from a Russian-owned mint, which has been printing money for the unrecognised Libyan government, based in the eastern city of Bayda.”

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Another report in the paper says that approval by the Planning Authority Board of a development project in the Qala countryside was met with outrage. The Qala local council, the Environment and Resources Authority and the Cultural Heritage watchdog had objected to the application.