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| Hariri Confirms Sayyed's Blackmail, Oqab Saqr's Statements |
| 2010-09-22 |
| [An Nahar] Prime Minister Saad Hariri's political advisor Mustafa Nasser confirmed that he had conveyed an offer from Brig. Gen. Jamil Sayyed that stipulated Hariri pays $7.5 million in return for Sayyed to give up the lawsuits he had filed, al-Liwaa newspaper reported Tuesday. Al-Liwaa, citing political sources, quoted Nasser as saying: "This is a fact and it took place in the presence of a Hizbullah official." MP Oqab Saqr had accused Sayyed, former head of Lebanon's General Security Department, of trying to blackmail Hariri over cash-for dropping case. He said Sayyed dispatched a "mediator" to Hariri asking for $15 million in return for giving up the lawsuits. But Saqr said that when Hariri rejected Sayyed's offer, the envoy returned to reduce the blackmail by half. "That person came back asking for $7.5 million. But Hariri, again, told him "I reject this kind of cheap settlement,'" Saqr said. Meanwhile, Mustaqbal MPs told pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat that Hariri confirmed during Monday's meeting with his Future parliamentary bloc that remarks made by MP Oqab Saqr on Monday were "true." |
| Posted by:Fred |