Madi Issues Warrants Against Brother of Fneish, Another Suspect over Illegal Medications
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General Prosecutor Judge Hatem Madi issued on Tuesday a search and investigative warrant against two people, including the brother of Minister of State for Administrative Reform Mohammad Fneish over the illegal medications case.
According to LBCI the warrant was issued against Abdul Latif Fneish and Fouad Ahmed Wehbeh over links to the forging certificates of laboratory tests and illegal medications case.
Media reports said last week that Fneish's brother might be involved in forging certificates of laboratory tests.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil briefed President Michel Suleiman on the details of the case.
Suleiman hailed the ministry for exposing the matter, stressing on the importance “of not to tolerate with who are manipulating with the health of citizens.”
Later head of Parliament's Public Health, Labor and Social Affairs committee MP Atef Majdalani held talks with Madi to tackle the matter.
In comments published in An Nahar newspaper, Majdalani accused Justice Minister Shakib Qortbawi and Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil of “covering up the scandal as no legal measure has been taken so far against the key suspect in the case.”
During a joint press conference on Monday, Qortbawi and Khalil stressed that “most of the counterfeit medications were removed from the market across Lebanon.”
Majdalani wondered “why the case was referred immediately to the judiciary and not to the public prosecution.”
Sources close to the case told An Nahar “investigations will not take a long time and will continue this week based on the important leads that have been discovered.”
Reports say the forgery has been lingering on for about ten months and when it was exposed the health minister claimed it was referred to the judiciary a month ago.
13 November 2012, 09:29
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hizbushaitan should pay dearly for playing around with sick peoples lives.
13 November 2012, 12:08
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will the fate of these warrants be the same as for other hizbushaitan guys? will hizbushaitan deliver them?
criminals protecting each other.
what happened to the samaha case? why is the endictment still not issued?
having an fpm minister of justice = NO JUSTICE.
13 November 2012, 12:45
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Is it just about illegal medications? What about containers of out of date meat and chocolate entering the country in an illicit way and covered by those controlling customs ?
13 November 2012, 12:47
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it only took 10 months to get warrants issued--on a somewhat related note, anyone know what happened to the people who were selling the bad meat. It was a big story in the spring, and then disappeared.
13 November 2012, 16:05
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A pet on the back and "Never do it again, son. At least not get caught red-handed" These are my predictions based on a lifetime of experience in Lebanon.
13 November 2012, 16:25
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Ashraf el nass!!!! the brother of their minister is involved. We are tired of collecting evidence of how far they are from sharaf. But what can we do
13 November 2012, 17:40
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The best way in my opinion, lawsuits. Better the money goes to those who required serious medication and were dooped by HA. Hit the pockets.
13 November 2012, 18:05
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His attempt to deviate our attention, and he failed miserably like usual.
13 November 2012, 18:17
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why is the minister of health still in place? why doesn t he have the dignity to resign? this case has been known for a month and they let people buy the fake medicines.
another cases of a pharmacist in dahiye before this affair broke out was judged and the culprit only had 2 months of jail for poisoning people...
funny how people close to hezbis or amal are involved in this and iranman comes and lecture lebanon about dignity? lol!
13 November 2012, 19:15
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The end is near for these scumbags! I see a direct relation to the situation in Syria. The closer the giraff gets to getting defeated the more of his cronies get exposed in Lebanon. It seems these low lives are losing their cover as their boss and protector, the giraff of Demascus, is too busy fighting for his own survival. Their end is getting closer by the day.
13 November 2012, 21:08
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let me remind you that hizbocrap is already protecting "bad apples" wanted under international arrest warrants...
14 November 2012, 00:05
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he will go to jail for less than a year, where he would probably have a tv and zawaj mut3a in his cell i.e no big deal, go watch some mafia movies to get an idea.
14 November 2012, 01:23
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Let me remind you that they waited for months to issue the arrest warrant, in order to give the saints some time to hide and destroy the evidence. He may get a slap on the wrist.
14 November 2012, 06:13
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FlameThrower,
Arrest warrant are just a piece of paper to the all Lebanese politicians "IT ISJUST THAT". Unfortunately when are you all Bloggers going to wake up and think of one think, IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT to leave to your children. NO Health coverage, no Social benefits, no Electricity, no water, no economic growth, no planning for the next 25 years for our families.
Stop defending your politicians - start thinking how to built a country. stop walking like sheep you have been doing this for over 30years. did anyone learn a lesson to stop following the Mongors of this country.
