Barely three weeks before the fall of Tripoli, Gaddafi loyalists had threatened to spill 250,000 barrels of gasoline off Malta’s shores from a Libyan tanker caught up in the middle of UN sanctions in June 2011.

The ship was the Cartagena, owned by General National Maritime Transport Corporation, a Libyan Government entity controlled by Muammar Gaddafi’s son Hannibal.

Former Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi told The Sunday Times of Malta that although Malta neutrality barred it from taking part in military operations, backroom negotiations in Valletta had helped destabilise the Gaddafi regime.

Read the full story in The Sunday Times of Malta.

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