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Yesterday, the judicial investigator, Judge Fadi Sawan, listened to the acting Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, in the case of the explosion of the port of Beirut in the government palace, as part of the judicial intention to listen to political officials, after investigate more than twenty people and issue arrest warrants against them. Last month.
On Tuesday, Judge Fadi Sawan questioned the port’s intelligence officer, Brigadier General Antoine Salloum, State Security Commander Joseph Al-Naddaf, General Security Commander Charbel Fawaz, and Public Security Commander, Dawoud Fayyad, and issued arrest warrants against all of them, at the request of the Prosecutor’s Office. Discriminatory.
Bloomberg informed a judicial official that Sawan focused on instructions Diab gave authorities regarding reserves of ammonium nitrate, which remained in the port from late 2013 until the Beirut explosion on August 4.
He said the interrogator also asked Diab why he had canceled his planned visit to the port weeks before the explosion.
Suwan should question the government finance and public works ministers as the ammonium nitrate freighter has been emptied. It has issued 25 arrest warrants against customs and port officials, including former and current Lebanese customs chiefs.
On July 20, he sent the official file on ammonium nitrate to Diab, who asked the Supreme Defense Council to consider it. Four days later, the council referred it to the Ministry of Development, the authority responsible for port operations, and to the Ministry of Justice, according to documents provided by the Prime Minister’s Office.
And the Ministry of Works received the documents a few hours before the explosion. Diab’s office attributed the delay in his arrival to the shutdown caused by the Corona virus.
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