BEIRUT: A Lebanese prosecutor on Thursday issued travel bans against the heads of the boards of five Lebanese banks as a precautionary measure as she investigates transactions by their banks, the prosecutor told Reuters.
Judge Ghada Aoun issued the bans against Salim Sfeir of Bank of Beirut, Samir Hanna of Bank Audi, Antoun Sehnaoui of SGBL, Saad Azhari of Blom Bank, and Raya Hassan of Bankmed.
She has not charged any of them with a crime.
When contacted, Hassan told Reuters she was “speechless” and noted she had joined the bank after the transactions took place.
Azhari did not immediately respond to a request for comment, neither did officials from Bank Audi, SGBL and Bank of Beirut.
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Lebanese prosecutor bans five bank board chiefs from travel
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Lebanese prosecutor bans five bank board chiefs from travel
- Judge Ghada Aoun has not charged any of them with a crime
Over 4,500 Daesh detainees brought to Iraq from Syria: official
- he detainees are among around 7,000 suspects the US military began transferring last month after Syrian government forces captured Kurdish-held territory
BAGHDAD: More than 4,500 suspected jihadists have been transferred from Syria to Iraq as part of a US operation to relocate Daesh group detainees, an Iraqi official told AFP on Tuesday.
The detainees are among around 7,000 suspects the US military began transferring last month after Syrian government forces captured Kurdish-held territory where they had been held by Kurdish fighters.
They include Syrians, Iraqis and Europeans, among other nationalities.
Saad Maan, a spokesperson for the Iraqi government’s security information unit, told AFP that 4,583 detainees had been brought to Iraq so far.
In 2014, Daesh swept across swathes of Syria and Iraq, committing massacres and forcing women and girls into sexual slavery.
Backed by US-led forces, Iraq proclaimed the defeat of Daesh in 2017, while in neighboring Syria the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces ultimately beat back the group two years later.
The SDF went on to jail thousands of suspected jihadists and detain tens of thousands of their relatives in camps.
In Iraq, where many prisons are packed with IS suspects, courts have handed down hundreds of death sentences and life terms to those convicted of terrorism offenses, including many foreign fighters.
This month Iraq’s judiciary said it had begun investigations into detainees transferred from Syria.
The detainees are among around 7,000 suspects the US military began transferring last month after Syrian government forces captured Kurdish-held territory where they had been held by Kurdish fighters.
They include Syrians, Iraqis and Europeans, among other nationalities.
Saad Maan, a spokesperson for the Iraqi government’s security information unit, told AFP that 4,583 detainees had been brought to Iraq so far.
In 2014, Daesh swept across swathes of Syria and Iraq, committing massacres and forcing women and girls into sexual slavery.
Backed by US-led forces, Iraq proclaimed the defeat of Daesh in 2017, while in neighboring Syria the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces ultimately beat back the group two years later.
The SDF went on to jail thousands of suspected jihadists and detain tens of thousands of their relatives in camps.
In Iraq, where many prisons are packed with IS suspects, courts have handed down hundreds of death sentences and life terms to those convicted of terrorism offenses, including many foreign fighters.
This month Iraq’s judiciary said it had begun investigations into detainees transferred from Syria.
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