Update 21:15 Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss businessman Max Goeldi has surrendered to Libyan authorities and will begin serving his four-month prison sentence for visa violations. His countryman Rachid Hamdani has been given his exit visa Monday late afternoon 22 February, but has not left Tripoli, he told his wife Bruna by phone from Tripoli.

Goeldi had been ordered to appear in court before noon Tripoli time (11:00 in Switzerland) or face unstipulated consequences, it was announced Monday 22 February. It had been understood that Goeldi could stay at the Swiss embassy until the appeals process had been exhausted.

Goeldi is one of two Swiss businessmen held in Tripoli since July 2008 against their will by the Libyan refusal to issue exit visas for them.

Links to other sites: Le Temps, Romandie News, TSR

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News story, GenevaLunch, 22 February 2010.

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