Tripoli court sentences bank hacking suspect

A Tripoli Criminal Court has sentenced a defendant to seven years in prison for attempting to manipulate Aman Bank’s digital systems. The court also imposed a fine of 2,000 dinars.

Prosecutors presented evidence that the accused had forcibly entered the bank’s premises and attempted to install software designed to create fraudulent accounting entries. The defendant allegedly planned to artificially inflate credit balances of certain shareholders.

This ruling follows a separate case from 6 February, when the same court sentenced three Aman Bank employees to six-year prison terms for fraud. In that case, the employees were found guilty of forging documents to obtain a debit card in a client’s name, which they used to access foreign currency allocations intended for heads of households.