The Head of the media office at Lebrag airbase confirmed Tuesday that LYD 200 million arrived this morning to mark the first amount of the banknotes printed in Russia by the parallel Central Bank of Libya based in Al-Bayda.

Media outlets close to Al-Thanni government said that the cash crisis committee at the parallel CBL, headed by Ramzi Al-Agha, had received the Russian plane at the Lebrag airbase.

Sources indicated that the money was placed in the main administration department of the parallel CBL in AL-Bayda so that it gets distributed to banks before the other remaining amounts of the banknotes, which are estimated to be worth LYD4 billion.

It is worth mentioning that the Presidential Council of the UN-proposed government in Tripoli had previously issued a number of statements denouncing this move by the parallel Al-Bayda-based CBL, followed by a similar reaction by the US Embassy in Libya that said the US considered those banknotes “counterfeit”.