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Malta halts shipment of cash destined for Libyan rebel chief

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Huge cache thought to have come from Russia in order to bankroll general’s war effortThe Maltese government has seized a massive shipment of unofficial Libyan banknotes believed to have been destined for Khalifa Haftar, the military commander leading an offensive to dislodge the UN-backed government in Tripoli.Security services in Malta confirmed two 2,000-cubic-foot (56-cubic-metre) containers packed full of the recently introduced currency were discovered at the end of September when the shipment stopped in Malta. Continue reading...

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