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Swiss businessman Released from Prison

Tripoli, KOMPAS.com - Swiss businessman Max Goeldi, who was imprisoned in Libya for almost four months ago because of visa violations, was released from a prison in Tripoli, Thursday (10/06/2010), said his lawyer, Salah Zahaf, told AFP.

"He was released today and are now in a hotel in Tripoli," said Zahaf.

"We are completing the administrative procedure so that he could leave the country," she said.

Goeldi was released two days sooner than expected.

Detain and prosecute Goeldi Libya after a brief detention of a son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi in Geneva in July 2008.