Plot to smuggle Saadi Gaddafi into Mexico foiled
Mexico uncovers and disrupts international plot to smuggle in Muammar Gaddafi's son Saadi using false names and documents.
Plans to smuggle Saadi Gaddafi and his family into Mexico were foiled by Mexican authorities
According to the Mexican Interior Secretary, the elaborate plan to smuggle Saadi Gaddafi to Mexico involved two Mexican, a Canadian and a Danish suspect.
Mexican authorities said that an international plot to smuggle Gaddafi and his family into the country under false names and false Mexican documents was broken up.
The plot was uncovered in early September 2011 as Gaddafi was fleeing Libya shortly after his father's demise.
He never made it to Mexico, but reached the West African country of Niger, where he had been living since.
The conspirators allegedly flew into Mexico and opened bank accounts and bought properties meant to be used as safe houses in several parts of the country, including one at the resort of Bahía de Banderas on Mexico's Pacific coast.
Gaddafi, renowned for his hedonistic lifestyle was often regarded as the family’s black sheep. He had a brief career as a professional football player in Italy, which was marred by his incessant appetite for alcohol, drugs and sex.
Gaddafi, 38, has been under house arrest in Niger since September 2011, where President Mahamadou Issoufou refused to extradite him ‘for humanitarian reasons’.
