Lebanon judiciary to question former ministers over blast
Finance and public works ministers in office in late 2013, when the ammonium nitrate was first unloaded at Beirut’s port, will be quizzed
13 August 2020 - 12:29
Beirut — Lebanon’s judiciary will question finance and public works ministers who were in office in late 2013, when the stockpile of ammonium nitrate that caused last week’s devastating explosion was first unloaded at Beirut’s port.
Former finance ministers Mohammed Safadi and Ali Hasan Khalil, as well as Ghazi Wazni — who was appointed in January and stays on a caretaker basis after the government resigned this week — will be quizzed, according to an official in the judiciary who declined to be named while discussing the sensitive investigation...
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