Kuwait: Kharafi family cannot seize Qadhafi plane

A court in Perpignan has ruled that an aircraft previously belonging to the late Libyan leader Muammar Qadhafi cannot be seized by the Al-Kharafi family, who hoped to sell the Airbus A340 to partially recover a sum awarded by a Cairo arbitration court in 2013. The French judge ruled that the aircraft was Libya’s sovereign property. Squire Patton Boggs lawyer Carole Sportes, acting for Libya, called it “very satisfying to see the judge has recognised the fact this plane, which belongs to the Libyan state, has immunity from being seized”.