A Libyan court has acquitted two former aides of the late slain leader Muammar Gadaffi over charges related to the 1988 Lockerbie bombing victims' compensation case.
Abdelati al-Obeidi, a former foreign minister and Mohamed Belgassem al-Zwai,ex-parliament speaker were pronounced acquitted of charges levied against them related to the case in which a bomb struck Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie killed 270 people in the air and on the ground, News 24 reports.
The families of the Lockerbie victims received 2.7 billion dollars in compensation from the Libyan government in 2003.
According to the report, the two former aides were accused of mismanaging public funds in compensating families of the bombing victims.
The prosecution had charged Obeidi and Zwai of negotiating settlements with the victims' families and paid out double the amount originally planned.
Obeidi's nephew Sami said that the defendants' families are satisfied that the Libyan justice is transparent and equal, the report added.
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