Will the Real Sovereign Wealth Fund Please Stand Up? How Civil War Undermined the Hunt for Libyan Assets

Muammar Gaddafi used Libya’s financial institutions as conduits for graft and nepotism on a huge scale. Rather than bring reform, the country’s civil war led to divisions and rivalries that undermined asset recovery efforts and helped those blamed for Gaddafi-era losses avoid a reckoning.

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