 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.
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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. |