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Serious Crganised Crime Agency
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MOST URGEIYT
Dear Sirs,

Re: Tracine Libvan Assels in the Llnited Kinedom (LIK)

We refer to the emailed correspondence between yourselves and the Libyart Embassy in
London's lawyer, Mohamed Shaban, dated lzth June 2AI2 and arepleased to read from such
coffespondence that you may be in a position to meet with us to discuss ways of cooperating
for the purpose of identifying any assets held in your country which may have been acquired,
by way of corruption andlor fraud, by Libyan nationals,
We are the agency appointed by the Libyan goveffilment under law 47 to trace and rcpatrtate
Libyan State assets obtained through corrupt or illegal means and held anywhere in the
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report directly to the Prime Minister's office.
The annex to Decree 47 12012 (copy enclosed with this letter) provides a list of individuals
and entities (many of whom were either former officials of the deposed Gaddafi regime or
enjoyed close links with the same and as such would be considered as Politically Exposed
Persons (PEPsO) whose assets have been frozen in Libya and transferred to the custody of the
Public Administrator" The Attorney General's Office in Tripoli is now either investigating or
has in fact issued arrest warrants and charges against those named on the attached list. Those
convicted of charges of financial crime may be sentenced to varying periods in prison in our
country.

Through our own intelligence work we are of the view that at least some of those identified
by Decree 47 l2AI2 may directly or indirectly own andlor control assets in the llK which may
have been acquired clandestinely by the misappropriation of Libyan public funds and

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