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Rashid Hamdani, left and Max Goeldi, right, at the Swiss embassy in Tripoli in 2009

Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The Swiss businessman held by Libya since July 2008, Max Goeldi, is expected to be released from prison and allowed to return home to Switzerland when he finishes his four-month prison sentence 12 June, his lawyer has told Swiss media. Only 8 of the 53 days he served in prison in July-August 2008, after his arrest, have been taken into consideration in calculating the time he has purged.

Goeldi was arrested with Rashid Hamdani, another Swiss businessman, shortly after the arrest in Geneva of Hannibal Qadaffi, son of the Libyan leader, for beating a member of his staff in a hotel.

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News story, GenevaLunch, 18 May 2010.

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  1. A. Salem Says:
    May 19th, 2010 at 4:15 pm

    The Swiss Authotities have cooperated with Gaddafi for many years and now they are paying for their foolishness. The whole world knows that he is a dictator, and that he is behind the massacre of over 1200 political prisoners in “Busliem”prison in Trpoli. I do not think that wise people deal with dictators.

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