Two Canadian UN employees face charges of selling weapons in Libya

Canadian authorities charged two nationals of involvement in selling Chinese-made drones and other military-equipment in Libya.

The case goes back to 2018 when the two men served at the International Civil Aviation Organization, a U.N. agency headquartered in Montreal.

The two men Fathi Ben Ahmed Mhaouek, 61, and Mahmud Mohamed Elsuwaye Sayeh, 37, were found to have violated UN sanctions relating to the Libyan civil war, according to Canada’s police.

The police said some of the drones in question were large enough to be armed with missiles.

The police did not offer details to which party the two men were planning to sell the equipment to, but noted that the Canadian law bans anyone in the country from supplying military equipment to any of the warring factions in Libya’s civil war.