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3 Mar 2020

A new report exposes Swiss merchants doing business with Libyan militia

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Two international NGOs, Public Eye and TRIAL, have released a recent report  uncovering international business transactions in 2014 and 2015 between the Swiss trader Kolmar Group AG and a network accused of smuggling whose main players are now facing trial.

The report suggests that Kolmar received over 20 shipments of marine gasoil from Libya between the spring of 2014 and the summer of 2015. The company was sup-plied by a network of questionable individuals: Fahmi Ben Khalifa – alias ‘Fahmi Slim’ – previously condemned of drug trafficking in Libya and his partners Darren and Gordon Debo-no, two Maltese businessmen. The gasoil was delivered to storage units rented in Malta by the Swiss company.