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Libya denies funding Mauritania coup plot

TRIPOLI, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Libya on Friday denied accusations by Mauritanian authorities that it funded a bid to topple the government in a plot led by a former military ruler now on trial.

The Libyan Foreign Ministry called the allegations "unfounded lies and fabrications."

In comments carried by the official Jana news agency, it said "the Libyan authorities had not given any funds to anyone and had nothing to do with what is going on in Mauritania."

Opposition leader Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla, who lost disputed elections to the incumbent president last month, is currently on trial in the capital, Nouakchott, charged with plotting with a foreign power to drag the country into war.

A Mauritanian police statement said on Thursday Haidalla's alleged plot was financed by the Libyan secret service.

Haidalla, who was detained after the November poll, denies this and says Mauritanian security forces have set him up.

Tensions had been running high in Mauritania ever since a coup shook the desert nation earlier this year.

The June 8 coup was put down after two days of street fighting in Nouakchott and marked the most serious challenge to President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya since he seized power in 1984 in the West African Islamic republic and ousted Haidalla.

Haidalla, whose trial alongside 14 opposition figures began on December 1, could face a minimum 10 to 20 years in jail and up to a lifetime of forced labour if convicted.