Mohammed Zwai (L), former secretary general of Libya's General People's Congress, and Abdel-Ati al-Obeidi, former foreign minister, sit behind bars during the second hearing in their trial at a prison facility in Tripoli December 10, 2012. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny
TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Two former top associates of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi were acquitted on Monday of wasting public money, but remained in jail as part of a bigger investigation involving his spy chief and one of his sons.
Ex-foreign minister Abdel-Ati al-Obeidi and Mohammed Zwai, former head of the legislature, were accused of wasting funds by facilitating a $2.7 billion (1.7 billion pounds) compensation payment to families of those killed in the 1988 Lockerbie plane bombing.
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