Eight Officers Postponed … and Salameh Interrogation Postponed



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Beirut’s first investigating judge, Charbel Abu Samra, postponed the examination of the Public Ministry’s appeal against eight officers for the crime of illicit enrichment, until 8 January.
Former intelligence director Edmond Fadel and his lawyer, Karol Al-Rassi, and Major General Abdul Rahman Shehitli, accompanied by his agent, Munir Al-Zoghbi, Brigadier George Khamis and Brigadier Muhammad Al-Husseini, along with his agent, lawyer Bilal Al-Husseini, retired Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Al-Jamal, his lawyer. Debt.

The leader does not attend
Former army chief Jean Kahwagi did not attend and lawyer Karim Pakradouni did. As was Brigadier General Amer Al-Hassan, whose lawyer, Marwan Daher, attended. Under the authority of Brigadier General Kamil Daher, attorney Mark Habaka attended. After the defendants began to appoint lawyers and agents for several of them to present formal arguments, Abu Samra decided to postpone the hearing until January 8, after giving the lawyers, who requested access to the file, a week to present your defense notes.

The deputy of the former army commander, General Jean Kahwagi, lawyer Karim Pakradouni, confirmed in a televised interview that “Kahwaji will not attend the Palace of Justice, as long as we present formal defenses today to investigate the file.”
The officers’ file had been presented by the Prosecutor’s Office for Cassation to the Beirut Prosecutor, who in turn was presented to the acting First Investigating Judge of Beirut, Charbel Abu Samra. And for the first time under the law of illegal enrichment.

The indictment included eight officers, including former army commander Gen. Jean Kahwagi, former intelligence director, Brigadier General Edmond Fadel, Beirut intelligence director, Brigadier General George Khamis and the manager of the office of former army commander Muhammad al-Husseini, in addition to four other officers.

.. nor the ruler
On the other hand, the governor of the Banque du Liban, Riad Salameh, did not go to the office of the Attorney General of Mount Lebanon, Judge Ghada Aoun, to be questioned with the file of the money changers and the subsidized dollar. Salameh presented through his legal representative a letter apologizing “for security reasons”, expressing his willingness to appear before her and give his testimony at a later date, without his opportunity being leaked to the media, which was understood by Judge Aoun. Judge Aoun listened carefully to the statement of the Director of Monetary Operations of the Banque du Liban, Mazen Hamdan, about the file of subsidized dollars and how it was distributed by the bankers.




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