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2019-02-02 Africa North
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Militia local financing sources revealed
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[Libya Herald] One group of Libyan militias has spilled the  beans on how another group of militias was able to finance itself.
The coalition of Tripoli’s main militias, the Tripoli Protection Force (TPF), has revealed that it has discovered how its recent adversary, the Tarhuna-based 7th Infantry Kani Brigade, has been financing itself.
Whilst the TPF has billed this as a revelation, in all truth there is nothing new in this news to most Libyans. However, coming from another group of militias, the confirmation of facts on the ground seems even more validatory.
Responding to its own questions posed in its 17 January statement as to how the Tarhuna-based brigade was funding its military campaigns, the TPF yesterday listed the number of operations and their revenues that the Tarhuna-based brigade had allegedly taken control of.
These were the:
- Al-Nabaa drinking water factory
- Sidi Sayah – Iron & Steel factory
- Sug il Ahad vegetable market
- The Rubbish dump
- General Rubbish Collecting companies operating in all of the Nawahi Arba areas
- 12 sand pitts/quarries
- 41 pebble/aggregate quarries
- Man-made River Investment Projects
- A total of seven private medical clinics
- Revenues from traffic violation fines paid instantly in cash charging LD 100 to trucks and LD 40 to small cars
- All the banks located in the Nawahi al-Arba areas
- All the catering and cleaning companies serving all public entities such as hospitals etc
- Taking over many public and foreign companies in the Nawahi Arba area which were completely robbed and looted of all their contents.
- The Twesha and Heera state poultry and egg-production projects
The TPF said that this is a preliminary list of the domestic sources of funding for the Tarhuna-based militias.
It said that it had lodged all this documented evidence with local police stations so that it could be used as official evidence and proof.
However, with regards to what the TPF said was “external finance “, it said that this file of evidence was lodged with the General Intelligence Service.
The TPF claimed that in view of it discovering the involvement of politicians, government officials and military personnel with major military ranks in this domestic financing of the Tarhuna-based militias, they called on the Serraj-led Presidency Council and Government of National Accord to assume their responsibilities in protecting the public and their properties from the Tarhuna-based “gangs”.
However, while the TPF coalition of Tripoli militias were only too keen to wash the dirty linen of the Tarhuna-based militias in public, many Libyans would have cried out something on the lines of pot calling the kettle black.
Whilst the Tarhuna-based militias may be accused of leaching off the various local businesses in the region they control, the Tripoli militias are accused of operating on a totally different scale.
Indeed, one of the grievances cited by the Tarhuna-based militias as a motivation for attacking Tripoli was the perception that the TPF had access to hard currency letters of credit from the Tripoli Central Bank of Libya (CBL).
There are accusations and the perception that some of the leading commanders of some of the Tripoli-based militias are in conspiracy with some bank managers, including at the CBL, to access hard currency at the preferential rate of LD 1.4 per dollar.
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Posted by Fred 2019-02-02 00:00||
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