Libya : Education minister jailed over textbook scandal

Libya’s education minister has been sentenced for three and a half year in prison for corruption charges leading to a textbook shortage in 2021, reports The Arab weekly. 

Moussa al-Megarief was also fined 1,000 dinars and stripped from his civil rights during the time of his detention and a year afterwards, the attorney general announced on March 16th. 

The former minister of the government of unity stood accused of “violating the principle of equity”, and “favouritism in contract management…over the printing of the textbooks”.

The Arab Weekly