Swiss Court Slaps $1.5M Bribery Fine On Gaddafi-Era Oil Minister’s Son

Mohamed Ghanem, the son of a Libyan oil minister during Muammar Gaddafi’s rule, has to pay $1.5 million after he was found guilty of bribery, a Swiss court ruled on Friday. In one of the rare corruption cases tried internationally against officials from the Gaddafi regime, the Federal Criminal Court of Switzerland found Ghanem “guilty of passive bribery of foreign public officials,” and ordered him to pay the sum to the Swiss government, Reuters reports. Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) was the plaintiff in the corruption…