BEIRUT: Financial Prosecutor Judge Ali Ibrahim Wednesday rejected bail in the form of real estate property to release Ibrahim Bashir, the former head of the Higher Relief Committee, a judicial source told the Daily Star.
The sources said the judge refused release Bashir in exchange for property valued at about the same price of the bail set at LL1 billion ($665,120).
Beirut’s Criminal Court had approved Tuesday Bashir’s release on bail, almost two years after he was charged with embezzling public funds.
Bashir’s lawyer requested replacing bail with real estate, and offered the court the deed to the property.
In November 2013, Ibrahim charged Bashir, his wife Raja, businessman Hussein Fawwaz and his wife, who was not identified, with illegally transferring public money to private accounts abroad.
Media reports said Bashir had transferred an estimated $10 million in public funds to private accounts abroad.
In one transaction, some $3.6 million were allegedly transferred to an account in Belarus, where his two sons reside.
Then in March 2014, Lebanon issued arrest warrants for Bashir’s two sons on charges of embezzlement and money laundering.
Last December, Beirut’s criminal court ordered the release of the wife of the former HRC chief.
Judge Burkan Saad approved the request to release her on bail which was set at LL500 million.
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