Airliners in Libya have been suffering from poor management and organization since 2011; which resulted in large material losses.
218News exclusively obtained a recent report, in which grave breaches were detected in the work of the board of directors of state-owned Al-Afriqiyah Airways.
The 13-paper report referred to suspected cases of smuggling gold to Turkey on board one of the company’s aircraft, and touched on administrative, financial and technical violations.
Among the observations contained in the report addressed to the Board of Directors, prepared by the Director of the Corporate Governance Office at the Libyan African Aviation Holding Company, Milad Al-Hajrasi; that the balance sheets of previous years were not approved.
The report, which was obtained by “218News” exclusively; monitored the failure to collect $1.3 million from Aerovista, the neglect of the company’s investment hotel in the Dimashiq neighborhood of Tripoli, and the lack of control over the company’s investments in Malta.
Among the violations, the continuing payment of salaries to four employees sent to work in Jordan, and they earned an average of 9000 dollars a month, despite the suspension of the station’s work for about a year.
The report, issued last March; monitors violations in the Sudan Aviation District, as there are two delegated employees working at an airport in Khartoum, who earn an average of 9000 dollars a month.
At the level of the aviation fleet; the report noted the inability of Al-Afriqiyah Airways administration to track billions of dollars in assets; as a result, it was not used in an optimal manner, decreased revenues and decreased the market value of the aircraft.
Among the violations; the ONP plane has been in Bulgaria since 2016 for the purpose of maintenance and has not returned until the date of preparing the report, which applies to the ONP plane, which has been in Germany for maintenance since May 2016 for the purpose of maintenance, and has not returned to Libya.
Three planes are still stationed at Tripoli airport after they were hit in the airport war in 2014, without finding solutions to them, and there is still a plane stationed at Benina airport since March 2019, and a number of accompanying violations in administrative, financial and technical work.
The source said that the Head of the Corporate Governance Office at the Aviation Holding Company, Milad Al-Hajrasi, had been threatened with arrest and expulsion from the aviation sector, in the event that more violations were detected, which observers described as “dangerous”, coinciding with the low level of Libya in the ranking of the Corruption Perceptions Index in reference to the need for Libyan institutions to impose more oversight and monitor violations.
