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He noted that “the name of the former minister, Gebran Bassil, has been threatened with US sanctions that include freezing the assets he owns in Lebanon and other countries, but this time for an almost non-political reason, but rather a matter of inheritance. family member who has become a trial in America. “
He continued: “Basil, along with Peter Germanus (former official) and Majid Booz have been added to the list of defendants who will appear before an American judge to consider the inheritance case presented by Lebanese resident of Florida, Lara Mansour, to obtain a $ 10 million inheritance that has hampered his transfer by the Lebanese government as representative. Justice Minister at that time Salim Jreissati. “
The report added: “In addition to the new complaint that includes Bassil, the US judge issued an order to ‘explain the motive’, ordering former defendants (of the Lebanese government) Samir Hammoud, Ziad Makna, Ziad Abu Haidar and Pascal Antoun to answer why they have not yet complied with the court order. The judge has given the Lebanese government defendants until November 9 to answer the reason for their non-compliance. “
He noted that “while he was foreign minister at the time, Bassil’s role in the case, which worsened last June, has yet to be clarified, as the papers of a personal lawsuit and a dispute by an American woman- woman named “Lara Mansour” with her relatives revealed the depth of the problems that the Lebanese authorities are experiencing with the United States government, in addition to the development of the powers of the American courts to consider crimes or transgressions committed by foreign officials in the territories of their countries.
He added: “Also, this issue started years ago when Eveline Mansour died in Lebanon, then her brother George Mansour died and left an inheritance.” Heiress Lara, who lives in Florida, USA, says that several people conspired to steal her right to the inheritance, which comes. Its value amounted to more than US $ 10 million, and the US court found that it has the authority to hear the case, including the case against former Lebanese Justice Minister Salim Jreissati and high-ranking judges in Lebanon.
He noted that “the case was initially presented in 2017 and reports that the then Minister of Justice (Jreissati) prevented” Lara “from obtaining her rights through the Lebanese courts, and asked one of the judges to file charges against her in an attempt to force her to withdraw her case from the US courts, while another judge With the concealment of the case papers, the case papers also demanded the prosecution of the defendants, including the former minister and 3 judges, in criminal cases ” .
He stated: “In an indication of the seriousness of that case at the time, US Ambassador Elizabeth Richards raised this issue with the then-former Justice Minister, who assured her that all errors had been corrected. What complicates the case is that the Lara Mansour Samaha’s attorney dropped the case. ” From the US court in April 2019, to learn later that the matter happened after Lara and her husband, Elie Samaha, were pressured.
The report said: “According to the documents of the case,“ Lara ”traveled to Lebanon with the promise to solve the case and obtain the promised legacy, but the security forces at the Beirut airport confronted her with an arrest warrant and up to date Next, she was transferred to the headquarters of the Internal Security Forces, where she was investigated in one of the branches. Regarding the case that he presented before the United States courts. “
She noted that “at this time, her husband approached the new Minister of Justice, Albert Sarhan, who requested that the lawsuit be dropped so that the wife could be released, after which the husband was arrested and joined his wife in the detention center, and again the United States embassy intervened in favor of the detainees, but Lara and her husband remained in prison for a week, then the heiress abandoned her case in contact with her lawyer in the United States.
He continued: “At that time, the Lebanese government, namely former Minister Jreissati and the Lebanese judges, responded to the lawsuit, stating that the court has no authority whatsoever to consider the case, especially since” it was brought by the Lebanese authorities against Lebanese officials and related to a dispute in Lebanon under the Lebanese law on property in Lebanon owned by his Lebanese father. Who died in Lebanon. “
He concluded: “However, American courts are now more than ever legally qualified to hear claims by US citizens against governments of foreign countries, and this has been proven in the case of US plaintiffs who were victims of Al Qaeda attacks against the US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam during the 1990s. The US Supreme Court affirmed the right of Americans and those affected, in addition to Americans, to obtain compensation from the Government of Sudan, which provided support for Al Qaeda, which in turn carried out this operation.
