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 al-Megrahi |
LONDON – Government financial experts are working with MI6 officers to unravel the fate of $4 million in a secret Swiss bank account in Geneva in the name of the close-to-death Lockerbie bomber, Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
Al-Megrahi was released in August by Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish justice secretary who decided he should be freed after serving eight years in prison to die in Libya due to medical evidence that his terminal cancer would lead to death “in a few weeks.”
A week ago al-Megrahi left his private clinic in Tripoli, Libya. Intelligence sources say he will almost certainly be dead by the New Year.
But the fate of the bank deposit has now become the focus of an unprecedented investigation.
At his trial in the Netherlands in 2002 al-Megrahi’s defense lawyer insisted that he was a low-ranking airline worker.
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The court was told he had been given the money to buy aircraft parts abroad in breach of the Western trade embargo in place against his country at the time of the 1998 bombing of Pan Am 103 flight over Scotland, in which 270 people died. The majority were Americans. Some were intelligence officers returning from a mission in the Middle East. Their presence on the plane has led to continued speculation the flight had been targeted.
That speculation has now raised th possibility that the money in al-Megrahi’s bank account was part of the plot to down the aircraft.
“We are hoping that the follow-the-money trail to the Swiss bank will enable [us] to show that the deposit was to be used to buy explosives,” confirmed an intelligence source in London.
Ben Wallace, a Conservative member of Parliament for Lancaster and Wye, and a member of the Scottish Affairs Committee, which has launched an enquiry into circumstances of al-Megrahi’s release, said that the bomber’s secret bank account “is a startling revelation.”
“Had this being known at the time, the financial web that linked Libya and al-Megrahi to international terrorism would have been a major plank in the prosecution’s case. Far from being the wrong man I think this suggests he was an international coordinator of terrorism for Libya,” said Wallace.
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