[UAH] South Africa investigates claims Gaddafi stashed $1bn in cash, gold and diamonds

South Africa investigates claims Gaddafi stashed $1bn in cash, gold and diamonds

02 JUNE 2013

SOUTH Africa's Treasury is looking into Libyan assertions that slain leaderMuammar Gaddafi and his family stashed money and other assets in the country, a spokesman said today.

"There was a group that approached Treasury claiming to represent the Libyan government and we are in the process of verifying their claims about assets that are in South Africa," Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan's spokesman Jabulani Sikhakhane said.

 

The Sunday Times newspaper said Libyan investigators had met Gordhan and President Jacob Zumato discuss locating and repatriating more than $1 billion in cash, gold and diamonds said to have been brought into South Africa by the family of Gaddafi, who was ousted and killed during a revolt in 2011,

 

The Gaddafi assets were held by four banks and security companies in South Africa, the Sunday Times said.

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