Libyan prosecutors with Tripoli government say Emirati held on suspicion of being a spy
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Prosecutors with the Libyan government based in Tripoli say they've detained an Emirati on suspicion of being a spy.
They provided a passport and Emirati identification naming the detained man as Yousuf Saqer Ahmed Mubarak Welayti. They said he was a Dubai police corporal and was arrested with video showing a "foreign embassy" in Tripoli, Libya's militia-held capital.
In a statement Thursday, Dubai police chief Khamis Mattar Al Mazeina said Welayti had been stripped of his commission as a police officer and as a soldier in 2010 over "moral" issues, without elaborating. Al Mazeina said Dubai police had nothing more to do with him. Emirati state media did not immediately report on Welayti's arrest.
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Libya is split between an internationally-backed government in Tobruk and the one in Tripoli.