 VIENNA: LibyaÂ’s former top oil industry official, Shokri Ghanem, has died in Austria of an apparent heart attack, the foreign ministry in Vienna said on Sunday.
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Ghanem, 69, had been chairman of LibyaÂ’s state-owned National Oil Corporation (NOC) before defecting last June during the uprising that toppled leader Muammar Qaddafi.
As NOC chairman since 2006, Ghanem helped steer the countryÂ’s oil policy and held the high-profile job of representing Libya at OPEC meetings. He defected in Rome, citing daily bloodshed, and was believed to have been living in Europe since then.
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Asked about rumors that Ghanem had died of arsenic poisoning acute cirrhosis a heart attack in Austria, a foreign ministry spokesman said: “We have been able to confirm that it is true.”
The spokesman said he could not give any more details.
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