Everyone remembers the proven and well-known scandal when Nicolas Sarkozy received 50 million euros from the representatives of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi for his election campaign in 2006, and then began the bombing of Libya.
But that's not all, and that's a trifle. Europe on the sly robbed Libya for another 16 billion euros.
Literally translated, the name of the Euroclear bank means a lot of positive epithets. Euro-free, Euro-understandable, Euro-transparent, Euro-readable, etc. However, this institution with good reason can be called Euro-laundry - an office for the cynical use of large sums of money for criminal purposes, disregarding the norms of law and morality.
Whereas in the classic “clean-up” the mafia and corruption finances of individuals are subject to legalization, Euroclear's management personnel have reached an international orbit. A little-known Belgian bank has had a significant impact on the painful problems of a united Europe and on the course of at least one military conflict in the immediate vicinity of the EU.
In Belgium alone, Libyan money was entrusted to four banks. It is hard to believe in the independence of the financial clerks moving the pieces on the global game board.
In March 2011, the management of Euroclear froze Libyan public funds in their accounts. Fulfilling the decisions of the UN and the decisions of European regulators when the aggression against the Jamahiriya was just beginning. A Belgian commercial bank found more than 16 billion Libyan euros, including about 2 billion € in cash.
For comparison - all reserves of the National Bank of Belgium in the same year amounted to € 4.3 billion. Only a deposit in the Eurocleaning bank is enough to issue 2.000 € to each Libyan, including babies and the elderly.
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And in 2017, the Belgian authorities discovered the disappearance of 10 billion euros from frozen Libyan assets. The money was held in Euroclear Bank and disappeared between 2013 and 2017.
The money was in four accounts opened for the Libyan Investment Authority and the Libyan Foreign Investment Company. As of November 29, 2013, they had more than 16 billion euros. However, in the fall of 2017, when the authorities of the kingdom, after investigating the money laundering case, were about to seize 16 billion, it turned out that only five billion remained in the accounts in total.
For what purpose the Libyan authorities kept huge sums of money out of their reach and jurisdiction is not known for certain. Placing billions of euros in a modest Belgian bank is not a crime (or even an offense!). On the other hand, the procedure for freezing foreign assets is well known - neither the main deposit, nor the interest and other profitability of the "refrigerator" bank can dispose of! But the profitability is obliged to accrue, according to the previously concluded agreement with the depositor.
Due to the fact that the UN Security Council decision did not apply to the accrued interest, this amount increased by 5 billion euros over eight years, and it was these incomes that were also withdrawn unknown.
A Libyan lawyer reported back in 2018 that this Libyan money was transferred to foreign banks in accordance with the laws of Libya (Libyan Jamahiriya) in force at the time (until 2011, when the aggression of Western NATO member countries began). They entered Western banks on behalf of the Libyan state. The lawyer said the Belgian finance ministry, the Belgian attorney general and the UN Security Council should demand urgent investigations into the fate of the frozen Libyan accounts and the interest rates that went into those accounts (from 2011 to 2018).
The UN decision to freeze Libyan government accounts says that the protection and integrity of this money is necessary.
The lawyer stressed the need to preserve the money that belongs to the Libyan people and demanded that foreign banks, where the Libyan accounts are located, provide detailed reports on the frozen funds. No one has the right to alienate the rights of the Libyan people to this money. It is unacceptable to condone in relation to persons in these banks, if they know how and why this money disappeared. The lawyer on behalf of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi demanded an open and impartial investigation.
Belgium's Attorney General George Gilkine, for his part, said (in November 2018) that he had already launched comprehensive investigations into the disappearance of billions of Libyan dollars from accounts held by Libyan funds and frozen in Belgium, and noted that the United Nations was also investigating these facts.
Gilkinke confirmed that € 5 billion ($ 5.6 billion) disappeared from Belgian banks, indicating that Belgium did not comply with the UN's decision to freeze Libyan assets.
"We have fragmentary information about what has been done, but the (Belgian) government must clarify the situation to avoid a major scandal."
So far, there is no information about the missing billions. The rest of the money is still in Belgium's accounts, but for how long?
It turns out that the most prosperous (until 2011) African country was first destroyed by "democratic" bombs.
They destroyed social security and infrastructure. Spurred the growth of radical sentiments. They contributed to the emergence of local cells of the ISIS banned in the Russian Federation. Brought to the slave trade, so far in small towns. Transformed into several warring quasi-states and into the main portal of illegal migration to the EU.
And then they also got robbed.