The Public Prosecution Service (OM) has launched a criminal investigation into a Dutch shipping company suspected of violating the arms embargo against Libya. A freighter from Shipping Company Groningen was caught trying to transport armored vehicles to Libya last year, the OM confirmed to RTL Nieuws.

According to the UN committee that monitors the Lybian arms embargo, the Groningen company violated the applicable sanctions. The strict economic and military sanctions against Libya are intended to snuff out the civil war that’s raged in the country since 2011.

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