Billions of dollars belonging to former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi are sitting in Canadian bank accounts almost 12 years after his death, says a former diplomat.
Fathi Baja, who served as Libya’s ambassador to Canada from 2013 to 2017, said he kept confidential documents containing financial details about the cash stockpile after he was fired from his envoy job in Ottawa. Citing the risk of corruption, Mr. Baja said he plans to safeguard those financial records in Libya until the North African country has a democratically elected government.
Away back in 2010 this blog uncovered a real estate partnership between Edmonton’s “Canada’s Islamic Society” and Gadafhi’s WICS (World Islamic Call Society)
WICS had it’s charitable status revoked in 2011 but Gaddafi’s local partners and their affiliates soldier on and in fact received tax payer dollars for security enhancements of their facilities under the Security Infrastructure Program for “Communities at Risk.”
In the 1st quarter of 2010 the Arabian Muslim Association and the Edmonton Islamic Academy received $69,008.00 & $30,096.00 respectively under the federal government’s “Communities at Risk: Security Infrastructure Pilot (SIP) Program.”
