MUAMMAR Gaddafi's last prime minister has become the highest ranking former regime official to go before Libyan judges, in a brief but sullen court appearance.
Dressed in a traditional white robe and brown vest, Al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi sat in stony silence within a caged section of the Tripoli criminal court, where figures of the toppled Gaddafi regime are facing justice.
The judge did not read out the charges on Monday but Taha Baara, the spokesman for the prosecutor general, said Mahmoudi "is accused of committing prejudicial acts against the security of the state and financial crimes".
Two other defendants being tried along with Mahmoudi were not brought to court, triggering protests from the defence team, which also requested more time to study the case.
"It is a big file. I need more time in order to get myself ready for the defence," lawyer Ali Dabba told AFP.
The session lasted about 10 minutes before the trial was adjourned until December 10 at the request of both the defence and the prosecution.
Mahmoudi fled to neighbouring Tunisia in September last year shortly after rebels seized Tripoli and effectively put an end to more than four decades of iron-fisted Gaddafi rule.
He was extradited to Libya to face justice on June 24, despite warnings from rights groups that he could face the death penalty.
Along with Saif al-Islam, the toppled dictator's most high-profile son, Mahmoudi is one of the few remaining keepers of the many state secrets under Gaddafi, who was killed on October 20 last year.
Saif, arrested inside Libya a year ago, is awaiting to hear where he will stand trial for alleged crimes against humanity.
The authorities in Tripoli want him to stand in the dock inside Libya, but the International Criminal Court wants him to face justice in The Hague.
Judges in The Hague heard arguments last month by a lawyer for Libya and representatives of the ICC to decide where Saif, 40, and Gaddafi's former spymaster Abdullah Senoussi, 63, should be tried.
Saif has been in custody in the western Libyan hill town of Zintan since his arrest last November, while Senoussi was extradited from Mauritania on September 5.
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