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ZURICH, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Two Swiss businessmen prevented from leaving Libya for more than a year have been handed back to the Swiss embassy in Tripoli, the Swiss Foreign Ministry said on Monday. The ministry said in a statement the Libyan authorities had given no explanation for handing over the two men, who it said were as well as could be expected in the circumstances. The ministry did not say whether the pair could now leave Libya and no one was immediately available to give more details. "The two kidnapped Swiss citizens were returned to the Swiss embassy in Tripoli by the Libyan authorities without any explanation," the statement said. In a dispute that has soured relations between the two countries, the two men have been prevented from leaving Libya since July 2008, days after Swiss police arrested Muammar Gaddafi's son Hannibal and his wife in Geneva on charges of mistreating two domestic employees. The charges were later dropped. The Swiss government had expected Libya to allow the two men to leave after President Hans-Rudolf Merz apologised in August for the arrest of Hannibal Gaddafi, but the men were then held at an undisclosed location. The two men are Max Goeldi, head of the Swiss-Swedish electrical engineering conglomerate ABB in Tripoli, and a 68-year-old businessman working for a construction company, identified by Swiss media as Rachid Hamdani. (Reporting by Emma Thomasson; editing by Andrew Dobbie) Keywords: SWISS LIBYA/ (zurich.newsroom@reuters.com; +41 (0)58 306 7354) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2009. All rights reserved.
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