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Under the title “For a family reason”, a US court threatens Bassil with freezing his assets, wrote “Al-Arabiya Net”, and the article stated that a non-political issue threatens the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, Gebran Bassil, son-in-law from President Michel Aoun … a legacy worth $ 10 million.
It indicated that Bassil’s name was added with Peter Germanus and Majid Booz to the list of defendants to appear before a U.S. judge to consider the probate case filed by Lebanese Florida resident Lara Mansour to obtain an inheritance of $ 10 million , which was obstructed by the Lebanese government represented by the then Minister of Justice Salim Jreissati. .
He added that, in addition to the new complaint that includes Bassil, the US judge issued an order to “explain the motive”, ordering the former defendants (of the Lebanese government) Samir Hammoud, Ziad Makna, Ziad Abu Haidar and Pascal Antoun to answer the reason for which they still do not comply with the previous court order. Who asks them to hire a new lawyer or to notify their intention to proceed (represent themselves). The judge gave the Lebanese government defendants until November 9 to answer the reason for their non-compliance. While he was chancellor 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 the dispute of a Lebanese-American woman named “Lara Mansour “with his relatives revealed the depth of the problems that the Lebanese authorities face with the US government, in addition to the development of the powers of US courts to consider crimes or transgressions committed by foreign officials in the territories of their countries.
Some outlets have reported that Representative Gebran has been involved in a lawsuit related to a family inheritance dispute between a Lebanese woman residing in Florida and her relatives in Lebanon.
The press office confirms that Deputy Basil has absolutely nothing to do with her, not near or far.
Returning to the article, Al Arabiya Net noted that this issue started years ago when Eveline Mansour died in Lebanon, then her brother George Mansour passed away and left an inheritance. Heiress Lara, who lives in Florida, USA, Says that several people conspired to steal Her right to inheritance, valued at more than $ 10 million. The US court found that it had the authority to hear the case, including the prosecution of former Lebanese Justice Minister Salim Jreissati and senior judges in Lebanon.
Al-Arabiya.net indicated that the lawsuit was first filed in 2017 and reports that the then Minister of Justice (Jreissati) obstructed Lara’s access to her rights through the Lebanese courts, and asked a judge to present charges against her in an attempt to force her to withdraw her case from the US courts. Another judge hid the lawsuit papers. The case documents also called for the prosecution of the accused, including the former minister and 3 judges, in criminal cases.
She said: “In an indication of the seriousness of this case at the time, United States Ambassador Elizabeth Richards raised this issue with the then-former Justice Minister, who assured her that all errors had been corrected. Which complicates the case. is that “Lara Mansour Samaha’s” attorney dropped the case to the US court in April 2019, only to find out later that the matter happened after Lara and her husband, Elie Samaha, were put under pressure.
It indicated that “according to the documentation 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 the next day she was transferred to the headquarters of the Internal Security Forces, where she was investigated in a branch about the lawsuit she presented before the US courts. At this time, her husband turned to the new Lebanese Minister of Justice, Albert Sarhan, who requested that the case be dropped so that the wife would be released. The husband was subsequently arrested and met with his wife at the detention center, and once again the US Embassy intervened on behalf of the detainees. But Lara and her husband remained in prison for a week, and then the heir dropped his case and contacted his lawyer in the United States.
He added that 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 hear the case, especially that “it was brought by the Lebanese people against Lebanese officials. and related to litigation in Lebanon under Lebanese law regarding property in Lebanon owned by her Lebanese father who died in Lebanon. “However, American courts are now more legally able than ever to hear the claims of 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, and the Supreme Court confirmed The US government has the right of Americans and those affected, in addition to Americans, to obtain r compensation from the Government of Sudan, which provided support to Al Qaeda, which in turn carried out this operation.
