Lebanon: Judge Aoun sues the Director General of the Internal Security Forces

Lebanese media say that Judge Ghada Aoun has sued the Director General of the Internal Security Forces, Major General Imad Othman, before the first investigative judge in Mount Lebanon, and Judge Nicolas Mansour sets the hearing for Othman.

  • Director General of the Internal Security Forces, Major General Imad Othman

Lebanese media reported that the Public Prosecutor in Mount Lebanon, Judge Ghada Aoun, had sued the Director General of the Internal Security Forces, Major General Imad Othman, before the first investigative judge in Mount Lebanon.

In a press statement, Aoun said: “As a judge, I have the right to demand the supremacy of the law above any authority and the prevention and punishment of any employee who seeks to transgress this authority.”

For his part, the judge, Nicolas Mansour, set a hearing for Othman next week and informed him through the Ministry of the Interior, requesting Mansour, according to the information of the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation, from the Directorate of State Security, details of what happened yesterday while heading to the house of the Governor of the Banque du Liban, Riad Salameh. .

It is worth noting that Judge Aoun had pointed out that “there are two official state security reports that officially document what happened, in addition to a video proving that preventing the execution of the subpoena took place by order of Major General Imad Othman following state security agents threatened that insisting on implementation would lead to the execution of the summons. to confront.”

Sources from the Prosecution Committee reported to the Governor of the Banque du Liban, Riad Salameh للميادينYesterday, Tuesday, that A security patrol raided two homes of Riad Salameh searching for him. The sources pointed out that the security patrol also raided the headquarters of the Banque du Liban to implement the subpoena once morest the governor, but did not find him.

On the third of this month, Ghada Aoun issued a decision to prevent the Governor of the Banque du Liban, Riad Salameh, from acting in New real estate owned.

I also opened Judicial authorities in LuxembourgEarlier, a criminal case related to Salama’s fortune. The French judiciary also conducted an investigation into Salameh’s accounts in June 2021, once morest the background of allegations related to his accusation of money laundering.

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