60 members participating in the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum issued a statement regarding what the Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations in Libya, Stephanie Williams, announced about “serious allegations” of corruption practices and the use of political money in the nomination process for the position of Prime Minister, and that an investigation is underway into this issue.
The members demanded from the United Nations Support Mission in Libya that the investigation procedures into the allegations be “of the highest degree of transparency and that the Libyan people be informed of the results of this investigation, as they are the holders of the sovereign right in this regard.”
They also called on the mission to “suspend the membership of all those who dealt with the aforementioned serious allegations, as a temporary procedure that is customary to follow when there are serious allegations of this type,” affirming that the fate of the dialogue’s credibility, seriousness and outcomes, and the credibility of the political process will depend on the seriousness of the investigations.
The Libyan researcher, Mohamed El-Jareh, had announced a surprising detail as saying that huge sums of bribes were given to members participating in the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum in Tunisia.
The researcher said in a series of tweets that two of the forum participants revealed to him that they had received financial offers worth $200,000 from a relative of Ali al-Dabaiba and his assistant, in exchange for giving their votes to Abdul Hamid al-Dabaiba to obtain the position of Prime Minister.
