The role and structure of the Military Investment Authority (MIA) are so similar to that of the Egyptian Armed Forces Engineering Authority that one can be forgiven for thinking that it was built on the same organisational model. Little by little, it has built up a complete economic system which works to the orders of Khalifa Haftar, commander in chief of the Libyan National Army (LNA, set up in 2014), and his clan in eastern Libya.

Khaled and Saddam Haftar in charge

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