Friday 06/February/2026 – 01:24 AM
The Libyan Public Prosecutor’s Office revealed an incident of forgery in civil status data dating back to 2002, involving an employee at the Tobruk civil registry who enabled dozens of foreigners to obtain national numbers and Libyan citizenship rights through illegal means.
Dismantling a forgery network in Libya.. 59 Egyptians obtained Libyan citizenship with a registration number for a lost family
The Libyan Public Prosecutor’s Office explained in a statement on the social media platform Facebook that the details of the incident were due to a foreign person conspiring with an employee at the Civil Registry Office in the city of Tobruk, where the latter exploited a family registration number belonging to a Libyan family whose lineage had been cut off, in exchange for a financial bribe amounting to 6,000 Libyan dinars, which the employee received at the time.
Under this forgery, a forged family document was issued, from which other documents later emerged, enabling 59 people with Egyptian citizenship to obtain Libyan national numbers and benefit from all the rights and benefits resulting from citizenship over the past years.
He continued that, following the investigations, a committee investigating incidents of falsification of civil status data, within the scope of the Tobruk Court of Appeal, decided to stop extracts based on the act of forgery. And tracking the benefits obtained from it; I was directed to search for the civil registry employee who neglected his trustworthiness. Then it ordered the imprisonment of three defendants who contributed to completing the forgery pending investigation.
