A judge handling Al-Medina case of financial irregularities was beaten up while jogging in the hill-top town of Harisa northeast of the Lebanese capital on Wednesday, a security source said. The source told KUNA justice Nathem Al-Khouri was practising his exercise near the house of his brother in Hairsa when a person hit him on the head several times. He was hospitalized for treatment of injuries, the source said. The targetted judge, who had been targetted with a bomb blast, was responsible for the file of Al-Medina Bank, where huge sums of money had gone missing. The judge ordered, on August 20, sealing the bank to avert mishandling of its files.
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