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Leb generals rollin' in dough...
A judiciary source said the UN team interrogated a "security officer" about possible links between the four men accused of Hariri's assassination and Al-Madina Bank executive secretary, Rana Qoleilat. Al-Madina bank was closed by a court ruling last year after a scandal involving Syrian and Lebanese officials and money laundering. Local television, citing a financial source, said around $500 million was found in the bank accounts of the officers accused of Hariri's murder.
Usually, professional soldiers, even generals, aren't paid quite that well...
The source said that each of the four officers possessed around $150 million and that most of the money had been paid into their accounts during the last two years. According to the source, one of the suspected officers possessed only $30 million in Lebanon as he had wired most of his money to accounts abroad a few months before Hariri's assassination. Lebanon's strict banking secrecy laws were "lifted" from the accounts following a request from the UN investigation team in the past few days.
Posted by: Fred 2005-09-09
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