Insurers for former airline Pan Am have filed suit in Edinburgh, Scotland, against a Libyan man who was convicted of the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people aboard a Pan Am jet in 1988, according to The Scotsman. Pan Am is seeking approximately $375 million from Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer, and Libyan-Arab Airlines, for which he was working at the time of the Boeing 747's destruction. The Libyan regime also has been named a defendant.
Pan Am filed the original action in Scotland in 1993, several years before Megrahi and a second Libyan, Al-Amin Khalifa Fhimah, surrendered for trial, the Scotsman reported. Although Pan Am declared bankruptcy in 1991, a liquidation trust had been established, into which any compensation would be paid. The action remained dormant during the criminal proceedings, but was reactivated following the conviction of Megrahi, who is serving a 27-year sentence in Glasgow. Fhimah was acquitted at the trial, but remains a defendant in the civil suit.
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