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The Public Ministry, Judge Ghassan Oweidat, issued the following statement:
A news site reported that a source from the Public Prosecutor’s Office of Appeal in Mount Lebanon commented in an earlier article on the aforementioned website that what was stated in the notification submitted by MP Ziad Aswad on the manipulation of the electronic “Najm system” belonging to the General Customs Directorate returns to the jurisdiction of the Public Prosecutor’s Office. In Mount Lebanon, starting from the place where the crime or the accused was committed, and consequently the aforementioned source indicated that he was surprised at how the cassation prosecutor was prevented from revealing the truth and that the discriminatory prosecutor’s office is not in a position to investigate this matter, so we point out that:
First – In the work of prosecutors there is no concept of “news source” for them, which indicates a lack of transparency and the emergence of the warp in business and the disclosure of things other than reality.
Second – Based on the provisions of article 13 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the power of the Public Ministry to discriminate includes all the judges of the Public Ministry, being able to direct written or verbal instructions to each of them in the development of the public case, each according to its competence, and therefore its request from the Attorney General of Appeal in Mount Lebanon to archive the investigations related to the “Najm system” belonging to the Customs Directorate is inscribed in these provisions and in order to determine the accusation valid public and give the necessary instructions.
Third.- It is necessary to point out that the cassation prosecutor, in support of article 16 of the Criminal Procedure Code, and his authority to direct public processes, will not fail to take any disciplinary measure against any judge of the Public Ministry who violates the instructions issued in accordance with to legal principles.
Fourth – Attention should be drawn to the fact that the discriminatory prosecutor ensures the proper development of public processes to prosecute the perpetrators of crimes and bring them to trial, and that achieving this objective does not allow the judge of any public process commits a violation under the pretext of persecuting criminals and adopting the method adopted in Lebanon in A time of lawlessness in transitory periods, according to the phrase “Stop him, and if you don’t know the reason, he knows it.”
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