Credit Libanais heist ends with arrest of 3 depositors and lawyer
Security forces arrested at dawn Thursday the three depositors Ibrahim Baydoun, Ali al-Saheli and Catherine al-Ali as well as prominent lawyer and activist Rami Ollaik for their storming Wednesday of Credit Libanais bank in Hazmieh, the National News Agency said.
Security forces also safely evacuated the bank employees who had been held as hostages.
The detainees were then taken to the Justice Palace in Baabda for interrogation.
The depositors Baydoun and Saheli had managed to obtain $55,000 from the bank on Wednesday. But al-Jadeed TV reported that the money was eventually seized by security forces at the request of Attorney General Ghassan Khoury.
“Khoury is not opposed to giving the money to the depositors or their families” after the investigations, al-Jadeed added, noting that the negotiations between the depositors, security forces and the bank had lasted for 15 hours.
The Lebanese Depositors Association meanwhile staged a sit-in outside Baabda’s Justice Palace in solidarity with the detainees.
Source: Naharnet
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