Investigations revealed that the body belonged to Shukri Ghanem, who worked as Libyan oil minister and prime minister in the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, as he was one of the most important figures responsible for economic deals before the 2011 revolution.

Roman Hazelinger, a former Vienna police spokesperson, did not hide - in his statements for the "mysterious endings" (26/7/20/2020) - his doubts that the man died intrigued, being among the well-known political figures, although he indicated that the results of the autopsy showed that there were no No trace of an external factor.

He also explained that the police had not found any evidence to support the suicide hypothesis, noting that the Ghanem family had left the city since the investigations were concluded, not because of fear of killing, but because of the psychological consequences of this tragic accident.

However, the investigation authorities in Austria indicated that there is no evidence of criminal suspicion of Ghanem's death, considering that the death was normal.

For his part, Libya’s Foreign Minister and its former delegate to the United Nations, Abd al-Rahman Shalqam, assumed that his death was due to a sharp drop in sugar level or a heart attack, so he died before falling into the river, confirming that the Ghanem family told him that the death was normal according to what the police reached Austrian.

But journalist Stefan Chaucer said there are many rumors about conflicts between Ghanem and the sons of Gaddafi.

John Stevens, the US ambassador to Libya at the time, also questioned the hypothesis of Ghanem's death from a heart attack and his fall in the river, where he wrote in his report to the American administration: "The paragraphs regarding the late Shukri Ghanem are true to me .. He was close to Seif (Gaddafi), and was reportedly involved in oil deals. "There is not a single Libyan with whom I spoke that he thinks he threw himself into the river ... most of them believe that he was silenced by members of the regime or other types of foreign mafia."