Muammar Gaddafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people in 1988, Libya’s former justice minister has claimed.
Swedish newspaper Expressen said Mustafa Abdel-Jalil told its correspondent in Libya: “I have proof that Gaddafi gave the order about Lockerbie.”
The comments were translated from Arabic to Swedish.
Mr Abdel-Jalil stepped down as justice minister in protest against the violence against anti-government demonstrations.
Mr Abdel-Jalil did not describe the proof allegedly in his possession.
He told Expressen that Colonel Gaddafi gave the order to Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, the only man convicted in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, which killed all 259 people on board and 11 on the ground.
“To hide it, he (Gaddafi) did everything in his power to get al-Megrahi back from Scotland,” Mr Abdel-Jalil said.
Megrahi was granted a compassionate release from a Scottish prison in August 2009 on the grounds that he was suffering from prostate cancer and would die soon.
He is still alive.
The Expressen said its reporter, Kassem Hamade, interviewed the ex-justice minister at “a local parliament in a large city in Libya”.
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