03.08.2015 - This is the wealth of the Libyan people and it has to come home
Libya is a monkey box,” London-based financial adviser Mohammed Rashid told Bloomberg last August, using a local metaphor to describe a chaotic and unpredictable situation. “You see the chairman of the National Council or whatever it’s called appearing on television wearing slippers and holding a Kalashnikov. They have no idea what they have, and what they have, they steal.” Rashid, who advises Middle Eastern investors, was reported to have organised meetings between former British prime minister Tony Blair and Saif Al Islam Gaddafi, a son of the late Libyan dictator, in the 2000s when Blair had left office and was working for JP Morgan Chase’s investment banking unit, and Saif was helping to oversee the activities of the stricken nation’s sovereign wealth fund, the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA)...............................................Full Article: Source
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