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Almost four months after the port explosion, the issue is still on the table. The Lebanese judiciary did not reach a clear conclusion and Lebanese officials did not agree to an international investigation, despite French investigators and others from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation participated in the investigations.
In the new investigations, sources from Al-Modon indicated that the judicial investigator in the case of the port explosion, Fadi Sawan, sent a letter to the Lebanese Parliament, through the discriminatory Attorney General, Judge Ghassan Oweidat, requesting whatever he deems appropriate regarding the responsibility of some ministers for negligence that contributed to the port explosion. . In the letter, he indicated that the investigations he conducted with current and former ministers revealed suspicions about the responsibility of the ministers and their negligence.
According to the sources, Sawan wanted to put the House of Representatives before its responsibilities because it is responsible for taking the appropriate measures, especially since it is not within the powers of the judiciary to judge ministers, but this matter is within the jurisdiction of the Supreme Council to judge presidents.
The reason for this message is that Sawan did not want to repeat previous experiences that took place with ministers, and establish authorizations against those he considered negligent, because he knew the result in advance. The lawyer of any minister can present formal defenses so that none of them is affected, being able to resort to judicial precedents that prevented the discriminatory prosecutor’s office and the Judiciary from investigating the ministers and their trials were null. Consequently, he preferred not to “sabotage” the judicial process and the investigation, and what came, with a step whose outcome is known in advance. He preferred to remove the responsibility and leave it in the custody of the Council of Representatives.
In the letter, Sawan requested an investigation with Acting Minister of Works Michel Najjar, former Ministers Youssef Fenianos, Ghazi Al-Aridi and Ghazi Zaiter, as well as with Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni, Ali Hassan Khalil, Minister of Justice Marie- Claude Negm, Ashraf Rifi, Salim Jreissati and Albert Sarhan.
In the context of the ongoing investigations into the port explosion, the discriminatory prosecutor, Judge Ghassan El-Khoury, stated today, Tuesday, November 24, that the member of the Supreme Customs Council, Hani Al-Hajj Shehadeh, and the Former acting director of the Beirut customs district at the customs office, Musa Hazima, brings the number of defendants to 33 Of them, 25 were arrested in the presence and two in absentia.
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