Journalist arrested in connection with spying for Israel

Al-Akhbar newspaper indicated that, in conjunction with a fierce media campaign to reduce the size of the achievement achieved by the Information Branch of the Internal Security Forces, in the file dealing with the Israeli enemy to empty it of its content, and in light of the great pressure exerted to evacuate the detainees whose number exceeded 25, the commissioner of Government At the military court, Acting Judge Fadi Akiki and military investigative judge Marcel Bassil have five detainees in the spy networks file. However, the Public Prosecutor at the Court of Cassation requested a further investigation into the files of three of them, which kept them in detention to complete their interrogation and check their cell phones and computers.

This comes in light of information regarding the presence of a journalist among the detainees involved in dealing with the enemy. Al-Akhbar learned that the suspected journalist, M. st.
Judicial sources revealed to Al-Akhbar that the aforementioned journalist wrote dozens of articles once morest Hezbollah at the request of an international body that paid him amounts ranging between $300 and $700 per article.He was asked to point out in his articles that Hezbollah was involved in the Beirut port explosion from By publishing false analytical information to turn public opinion once morest him.
When he was asked during the interrogation if he knew that the party that was paying him was Israeli, he replied that he doubted that the party was Israeli, but he continued to work with it out of greed for the money he was receiving for every article he wrote.

In addition, it was remarkable that the government commissioner at the military court, who arrested the notary, A. c. For violating the boycott law with the Israeli enemy by communicating with Israelis through his account on social media, he released the arrested S. Al-Khayat immediately received the file, knowing that the latter had intended to send cell phone numbers outside Lebanon, which turned out to have been sent for the benefit of the Israeli enemy. Al-Akhbar learned that political and religious pressures were applied to release him.
In the same context, the mediations that were made to release the former commander of the Special Forces School in the army, Colonel Mansour Diab, did not work, as he was charged and referred to the military investigative judge, Najat Abu Shaqra, to complete the investigation, bearing in mind that he had previously been convicted in the military court of spying for Israel and dealing with with her.