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3 maltatoday | WEDNESDAY • 29 JUNE 2022 NEWS Libyan AG accsed BOV of violating know-your-customer rules CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 The cash funded Muatassim Gaddafi's playboy lifestyle, with millions held in his various American Express and Visa credit card accounts. The three accounts at Bank of Vallet- ta were held in the name of Capital Re- sources, a company owned by Gaddafi but whose name appeared as Muatasim- bllah Muammar Abuminyar. Muatassim, 36, died in the Libyan de- sert, bearded and in his last gasps on a hospital bed, with a gaping wound in his throat on 20 October, 2011 after being captured at the fall of Sirte. The Libyan Attorney General had al- so accused Bank of Valletta of violating know-your-customer rules that should have prevented it from opening an ac- count for Gaddafi in the first place. The Libyan Attorney General was rep- resented by Shazoo Ghaznavi. Libya's claims were opposed by Safia Farkash Gaddafi, Gaddafi's 69-year-old widow now living in Oman with sons Hannibal and Mohammad, and daugh- ter Aisha. Safia Farkash's lawyer, Charilos 'Har- ris' Oikonomopoulos, claimed that Muatassim Gaddafi had another heir: his hitherto unknown wife and Dutch model Lisa van Goinga and her son. Oikonomopoulos insisted that Gadd- afi's Malta cash were his private funds and not government monies. "You've been trying to prove that the prove- nance of his funds was illicit… there has not been a single clue of a single time of any amount coming from any official or related Libyan business," the Greek lawyer told the Libyan AG's lawyer in Malta. "These funds were private funds, having nothing to do with the Libyan state." Oikonomopoulos was assisted by law- yer Louis Cassar Pullicino. Lawyer Si- mon Micallef Stafrace was nominated by the courts to act as deputy curator on behalf of the unknown heirs of Mu- tassin Gaddafi. 69-year-old Safia Farkash Gaddafi now lives in Oman with sons Hannibal and Mohammad and daughter Aisha