Berri files complaint with Oueidat over Ghada Aoun's WikiLeaks tweet
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri filed on Wednesday a complaint to Public Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat, following a tweet by Mount Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun.
Aoun had earlier today published a list of names of Lebanese officials who have frozen accounts in Switzerland, citing WikiLeaks as a source.
She captioned the list with a call for the mentioned politicians to lift secrecy off their accounts, "for the sake of transparency."
"I do not know how true this information is, but why don't they disclose their accounts in the Swiss banks," Aoun said.
The name of Berri comes fourth in the list with $6.4 billion, in addition to an account for his wife Randa Berri worth $5.7 billion and another for his son Abdallah Berri worth $2 billion.
Berri's lawyer Ali Rahhal filed a complaint before Oueidat for "prosecution, investigation and for taking the necessary legal measures."
The list also respectively includes the names of ex-Prime Minister Fouad Saniora, caretaker PM Najib Mikati, Mikati's brother and business partner Taha Mikati, ex-Deputy PM Michel Murr, ex-PM Saad Hariri, Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblat, ex-Minister Elias Murr, MP Neemat Frem, former President Michel Suleiman, ex-MP Nicholas Fattoush, MP Fouad Makhzoumi, Zahle politician Myriam Skaff and Change MP Paula Yacoubian.
Source: Naharnet
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