Libya former oil minister found dead in the Danube

At the height of the crisis in Libya,
he crossed over to neighbouring Tunisia in mid-May 2011, by car and became
one of the highest-ranking officials to defect from the regime.

His defection came just weeks before he was due to represent Libya at an
Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries meeting in Vienna.

In June, he announced his defection through Italian news agency ANSA, saying
he left his home country to “to join the choice made by young Libyans
to fight for a democratic country”.

However, Ghanem added that he was not working with the National Transitional
Council, which is Libya’s current interim government.

Instead, he sought refuge in Vienna, a city he knows well having not only
travelled there regularly as oil minister for OPEC meetings, but also having
lived there when he was director of OPEC’s research division from 1993 to
2001.

Source: AFP

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