Ultimately, the Facilities Security Authority — another Libyan security arm in the tangle of official and semi-official appendages of the fractured state — stepped in. The authority approached embassies and international companies that were using foreign security contractors with an update — and a proposal. “They were told, ‘Well, actually we are now the only party authorized to provide security.’ And they settled on a list of 18 authorized foreign security companies, GardaWorld among them. But in exchange, the FSA imposed a six per cent fee on the contracts of these foreign security companies,” Lacher said. As of several months ago, GardaWorld’s clients in Libya included German electronics giant Siemens, Italian oil group ENI and the British embassy in Tripoli, according to media reports in Europe and North Africa.

Source: Libya Today September 20, 2023 14:03 UTC