Canadian helped Gadhafi’s son flee Libya: report
A Canadian man has admitted to helping Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi’s son flee the country last month, according to the National Post.
The Toronto-based newspaper reported that Gary Peters, president of the Cambridge, Ont.,longchamp outlet private security firm Can/Aus Security & Investigations International, was Saadi Gadhafi’s longtime bodyguard.
Peters, a landed immigrant, told the National Post that he was part of the team that helped the slain dictator’s son escape across Libya’s southern border to Niger.
Peters said that he was shot in an ambush returning to Libya and came back to Canada to seek medical treatment.
The National Post reported that Peters had worked for the Gadhafi family since 2004 and continued to serve as a bodyguard during the NATO campaign against the dictator, which ended in his death earlier this month.
The Ontario man vowed that he “broke no laws” in an interview with the National Post, despite the United Nations sanctions imposing an arms embargo on Libya and freezing the Gadhafi family’s assets.
Peters is not facing charges for his involvement with the Gadhafi family.
He told the National Post that his former employer, the third of the dictator’s sons, wants to move to Canada, as he has property in this country.
“The man’s a gentlemen,” he said, describing him to the National Post as “very educated, very nice guy.”
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