Nakon trogodišnje istrage, u februaru 2002, specijalni sud u Tripoliju optužio ih je sve da su namjerno zarazili 393 libijske djece virusom koji izaziva AIDS, navodno u sklopu zavjere da se ugrozi sigurnost u zemlji.
After three years of investigation, in February 2002, a special court in Tripoli charged them all with deliberately infecting 393 Libyan children with the virus that causes AIDS, allegedly as part of a conspiracy to damage the country's security.