ARMS TO LIBYA: SA company Paramount says it is checking if Jordan sold on armoured vehicles to Libyan forces

The South African company Paramount Industrial Holdings says it is checking whether the Jordanian government sold on any of its armoured vehicles to forces fighting a civil war in Libya.

Press reports have said that Mbombe 6 armoured vehicles made by Paramount have been seen in the fighting on the outskirts of Tripoli between forces loyal to the UN-backed Government of National Accord in Tripoli and the forces of Benghazi-based General Khalifa Haftar.Paramount has denied supplying any Mbombe 6 armoured vehicles to any Libyan forces. It said, however, that it had supplied some of these vehicles to Jordan.

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