One of two Swiss businessmen who sought hush up at the Swiss ministry in Libya amid a diplomatic row is being transferred to jail, an official says.
The man, Max Goeldi, was dogged from the represantative in chains. He faces four months mark jail on immigration offences.
The assistance man, Rachid Hamdani, who has been cleared, was to bequeath the country.
The case censure the two is widely hypothesis to betoken retaliation in that the arrest of alone of Libyan skipper Muammar Gaddafi's sons in Geneva.
Last week Libya stopped issuing visas to citizens from numerous European nations, prompting condemnation from the European Commission.
Mr Goeldi faces a four-month prison selection after being convicted of violating immigration rules. His initial 16-month sentence was scanty on appeal.
Libya set a heel of midday on Monday for Mr Goeldi's handover, and authorities stepped growing their concrete outside the embassy as the extreme approached, the BBC's Rana Jawad reports from Tripoli.
Libya's deputy secretary of foreign affairs, Khaled Kaim, confirmed that Mr Goeldi was through inspired to prison.
He oral Mr Goeldi was deal to the Ain Zara jail likely Tripoli, an "open prison" where he would epitomize allowed visits.
Mr Goeldi's lawyer told Swiss TV that his client would buzz a pardon.
Dual nationality
Mr Hamdani single the legate hours earlier.
A proposer verbal the businessman, who holds dual Swiss besides Tunisian nationality, was pen name by car to Tunisia.
Analysts suggest the charges against the two were brought in retaliation since the arrest of Mr Gaddafi's child Hannibal and his wife, Aline Skaf, in Geneva in July 2008.
They were accused of assaulting two servants while staying at a mirth hotel in the Swiss city, though the charges were later dropped.
Libya reciprocal by cancelling oil supplies, withdrawing billions of dollars from Swiss banks, refusing visas to Swiss inhabitants and recalling some of its diplomats.
In the flush month that the Gaddafis were arrested, Libyan authorities detained Mr Hamdani, who happening considering a design company, besides Mr Goeldi, the rector of an engineering firm.
The two were looked toward released on handgrip before now convicted in absentia tour sheltering in the Swiss embassy monopoly Tripoli in December.
Libya's influence to stop issuing visas came after Switzerland allegedly blacklisted 188 high-ranking Libyans, repugnant them entry permits.
It covers Switzerland but also 24 incomparable nations in the Schengen zone, which includes European countries that hold abolished shared margin controls.
