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The Mount Lebanon Appeal Prosecutor, Judge Ghada Aoun, explained that the legal representative of the Governor of the Banque du Liban, Riad Salameh, presented a letter apologizing to the Governor for not attending yesterday’s interrogation session with the money changers and the dollar. subsidized, for security reasons, and told “Nidaa Al Watan”: “According to the law, if you do not comply The defendant refused to attend the first time, so we have to inform him again, and I have had a little take into account the situation due to the nature of the cited personality, and we have not drawn up a search and investigation report, and the judge explained the reasons for his inability to attend, and logically I have to understand the situation, and we inform him that we will set a date not so long ago. Without announcing it, and the ruler has expressed his willingness to appear before me and give his testimony. “
Will you go to the end of this file? Aoun replied: “I have a file in front of me on which I have worked in accordance with my conscience and convictions and based on the law. I have no justification for any file not to proceed. On the contrary, I will follow this file like all the others. files “.
Regarding her daring to process a file like this and her expected end in relation to it, Aoun replied: “I derive my courage from God, and I don’t expect anything because I don’t advance the investigation. I work on the file conscientiously and in accordance with the law and it does not invade anyone’s powers. What are my powers and no one can take them away from me. This file was presented to me and I will walk in it according to my conscience and according to the law.
Judge Aoun denied the allegations that the files were being discreetly opened, and the request was absent, saying: “I am not the one who chooses the files or who opens them, but I go through any serious file that comes to me based on news and complaints. He was given money from the subsidized dollar for travel or the like, and the Dahia detachment began to investigate this complaint, and from investigation to investigation we came to the issue of the subsidized dollar. She added: “If anyone has any political or probative evidence, I encourage them to present it, because the file that reaches me and is within my authority will open it verbally, and I repeat, I am not the one who goes and looks for files, and example in the accusation against employees in the Ministry of Displaced persons, that has arrived “. The file was sent to the Case Authority of the Ministry of Justice, which sent it to the Public Ministry of Discrimination, and from there to us, we work according to the powers and we walk with what we receive, as far as the accusations are “Haram forbidden ”and“ Taq Hanak ”, why? Responsibilities and throw accusations on them. “
Judge Aoun rejected the accusations of the Interior Minister in the interim government, Mohamed Fahmy, that at least 95 percent of the judges are corrupt, and recorded their weaknesses in this saying: “First of all because this percentage is never correct . More than half of the judges are “Edem”, but He acknowledged that “that courage is lacking in some of them due to the existing judicial system, which makes the judge many times threaten his position if he does not satisfy so-and-so reasons “.
When asked who would be protected, especially when he reviewed large files, Judge Aoun was quick to reply: “All my dependence is on my Lord alone and” as God wants “and the ages are in his hand, and if they want to fire me, let them do “The last of my worries and meddling,” so I work very hard. With transparency, I put a lot of effort into my work, and I will not cry except for the good of the country. ” Aoun states in response to a question that she is not affiliated with any political party and says: “I am doing what my conscience tells me, and I have known President Michel Aoun for a long time and he knows me, and he realizes that even if he asks me for something, if I’m not convinced, I won’t do it, in my life. I did not do something of which I am not convinced, and that one of the parties proves otherwise, that comes with the proof that I did something contrary to my convictions and conscience, I am not influenced by anyone and “there is no difference with me.” I only fear my Lord because one day he will hold me accountable. All the accusations against me are false and “prohibited”. I was once accused of leading associations, so where are they? Is prohibited. There is a great injustice against the judge, so I ask where is civil society? And where are the officials who do not protect the judges? I realize that I take very big steps that require audacity and can remove me from my position, but “you don’t have”, I am only crying to the country, so I said that the independence of the judiciary is very essential “.
Regarding the investigations in the Beirut port file, Judge Aoun said that things began to bode well, noting that “many houses and thousands of displaced families have been destroyed, and there is more than one martyr within it. family, and this file should be entitled to the other “.
