Seized: two containers full of cash bound for Libyan strongman
Unofficial currency believed to be for strongman Haftar

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.

A Libyan demonstrator holds an image of General Khalifa Haftar. Photo: AFPA Libyan demonstrator holds an image of General Khalifa Haftar. Photo: AFP

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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