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Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy entered a prison in Paris on Tuesday on the first day of a five-year sentence, marking the first time a former leader of modern France has spent time behind bars.

This report examines the operations of Alkagesta Ltd, a Malta‑registered company accused in various reports of transporting oil products with disputed certificates of origin.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been handed a five-year jail sentence.

On Monday, Libya’s coast guard fired at its rescue ship, the Ocean Viking, in international waters while it was carrying 87 migrants.

EU and UK authorities are investigating Alkagesta for allegedly selling Russian oil illegally to Libya, according to media reports.

Alkagesta, Malta’s largest oil bunkering operator, is under investigation by both EU and UK authorities over suspected illegal sales of Russian oil to Libya.

Fuel smuggling from Libya is a business with billion-dollar turnovers, but very little is known about the extent of the maritime operation that regularly exports petroleum products from the country.

Libya is continuing its crackdown on human trafficking gangs that torture migrants attempting to travel from Africa to Europe.

FUEL smuggling out of Libya is a billion-dollar business, but little is known about the scale of the maritime operation that routinely ferries refined petroleum products out of Libya.

Fuel smuggling out of Libya is a billion-dollar business, but there is little knowledge about the extent of the maritime operations that regularly transport refined petroleum products out of Libya.

Alkagesta has emerged as one of Malta’s most active oil cargo traders, according to sources familiar with ongoing investigations.

In 2024, Maltese investment firm Alkagesta, now under investigation by international authorities over suspected smuggling of Libyan oil, appeared to be in a rush to hire Russian-speaking staff.

Four suspected human smugglers arrested in Libya in joint UK-Libya operation targeting Mediterranean trafficking routes.

The Libyan Attorney General accused suspected traffickers of torturing migrants to pressure their families into paying ransoms for their release.

In 2022, while researching locally-based companies that were potentially violating sanctions, Alkagesta was on my list. The Azerbaijani-owned company is a commodity trader headquartered in Malta with operations in Turkey, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and even Georgia.

A Libyan company linked to the powerful faction that controls eastern Libya has exported oil worth at least $600 million since May, marking an end to the National Oil Corporation’s monopoly on exports, according to shipping records and U.N. experts.

Libyan authorities uncovered mass graves containing dozens of migrant bodies, allegedly linked to human trafficking networks, as part of an ongoing crackdown on smuggling operations.

Italy-based David Yambio, a critic of Meloni government, helps ICC find evidence of abuse of detainees in Libya.

Tunisian uniformed personnel sold migrant groups between 40 to 150 people for prices ranging between 12 to 90 euros per person to Libyan armed forces and militias.

The head of Libya’s judicial police has been arrested after the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant over war crimes allegations, media reports say.

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Members of the Special Boat Service (SBS) are being investigated over a UK special forces operation in Libya two years ago, the BBC has been told.

Former French president alleged to have received millions of euros from Libyan dictator’s regime to fund campaign.

Abd al-Rahman Milad was member of Libyan Coast Guard also considered to be the leader of a criminal organisation