Mohamed AlgarjThis investigation alleges that a forged instrument was used to create a public authority whose cumulative cost reached $14 billion, then compares that figure with Libya's public payroll. A publishable edition must authenticate the instrument, rebuild the spending total from official statements, and avoid assigning criminal responsibility without a court finding.
USD 14bn — cumulative cost alleged by the post
The analysis
This investigation alleges that a forged instrument was used to create a public authority whose cumulative cost reached $14 billion, then compares that figure with Libya's public payroll. A publishable edition must authenticate the instrument, rebuild the spending total from official statements, and avoid assigning criminal responsibility without a court finding.
What the public record establishes
The linked records provide the institutional and numerical frame for this investigation. They support a documented reading, but do not automatically prove every causal claim or allegation. The forgery claim is an allegation in the Facebook post, not an established judicial finding; authenticate the instrument and obtain responses from the authority and named decision-makers. Reconstruct the $14 billion total by year, legal entity and expenditure type from primary records; do not treat a cumulative allocation, release and actual expenditure as interchangeable.
What remains unanswered
The public-interest test is what the responsible institutions publish next: the underlying decision, transaction-level data, implementation record and a response that can be checked against the evidence in this governance file.
Editorial method: This investigation rebuilds the original calculation from the linked public records, preserves the source period and transaction stage, and separates documented figures from estimates, interpretation and allegations.
Mohamed Algarj