Watch how Gaddafi lived like a monarch (in pics)

New Delhi: As the Battle for Tripoli reached a climax in mid-August 2011, former Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi lost his life and all his properties were forfeited by rebels. After the end of Gaddafi's era, investigations were done to compute his total wealth.On 25 February 2011 Britain's Treasury set up a specialised unit to trace Gaddafi's assets in Britain.As per reports In January 2002, Gaddafi purchased a 7.5% share of Italian football club Juventus for US$21 million, through the Libyan Arab Foreign Investment Company. As per reports Gaddafi had an Airbus A340 private jet, which he bought from Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia for $120 million in 2003. Operated by Tripoli based Afriqiyah Airways, and decorated externally in their colours, it was used in 2009 to repatriate Lockerbie bomber Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, on his licensed release from prison in Scotland. The plane was captured at Tripoli airport in August 2011 as a result of the Libyan civil war, and found by BBC News reporter John Simpson to contain various luxuries including a jacuzzi.Here take a view at some of his properties:A view inside Colonel Gaddafi's compound at Bab al-Azizia, which Gaddafi's wife Safiah used as a summer home. A swimming pool inside the house of Aisha Gaddafi, Colonel Gaddafi's daughter. Anti-Gaddafi fighters sit on a two-seater couch framed by a golden mermaid with the face of Aisha Gaddafi, daughter of former Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi, in her house in Tripoli. Libyan revolutionary fighters loot a painting from a property belonging to Colonel Gaddafi near Sirte. A man stands inside the luxury Tripoli house of Aisha Gaddafi, daughter of the former leader. Gaddafi'S Airbus A340 private jet. Rebels checking out Gaddafi's wardrobe. Rebels inspect a jacuzzi at the mansion of one of Gaddafi's sons. where Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi used to receive foreign dignitaries and officials at his Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli. Libyan forces inspect Colonel Gaddafi's bed inside a palace in Sirte. A Libyan troop checks through more ruined rooms inside Gaddafi's Sirte palace. A jacuzzi inside Gaddafi's former palace in Beyda. Anti-Gaddafi forces sit on a bed at the former Libyan leader's farmhouse lair, near the town of Abu Grein 86 miles west of Sirte. A concealed staircase leading to a tunnel at the Tripoli house of Hannibal Gaddafi, son of Colonel Gaddafi.

Watch how Gaddafi lived like a monarch (in pics)

New Delhi: As the Battle for Tripoli reached a climax in mid-August 2011, former Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi lost his life and all his properties were forfeited by rebels. After the end of Gaddafi's

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