The man cleared of the Lockerbie bombing has said Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi should be "tried in court" over whether he ordered the 1988 atrocity.
Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah also said he considered himself one of the victims of the Gaddafi regime.
Speaking to Swedish newspaper Expressen at his home in Tripoli this week, he said: "I don't know whether Gaddafi had anything to do with Lockerbie or not. There is a court and he is the one to explain whether he is innocent or not. He has to."
Mr Fhimah was cleared of mass murder for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie in January 2001 which killed all 259 people on board and 11 people on the ground.
At the trial under Scots law at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi was found guilty and ordered to serve a minimum of 27 years before being released in 2009 on compassionate grounds.
Mr Fhimah was found not guilty and freed.
He returned to Libya to a hero's welcome and was greeted by Gaddafi.
Mr Fhimah told the Swedish reporter: "I was never a part of the regime. I am an ordinary citizen, who was connected to a crime I had nothing to do with and I don't know who made that connection."
He added: "I lost my travel agency in Malta. I had a farm that I was forced to sell in order to provide for myself and my family. I haven't received any compensation from the regime."
Mr Fhimah greeted Megrahi on the steps of the plane when he arrived in Libya after his release from Greenock prison in August 2009 on compassionate grounds suffering from terminal prostate cancer.
He said: "Al Megrahi was a friend and a colleague of mine. I don't know if he has anything to do with Lockerbie. There was a legal process and he was sentenced by a court."
Mr Fhimah gave no indication that he knew the whereabouts of Megrahi during the interview, the reporter said.
