Reports: STL Indictment in Few Weeks, Canadian Investigator Leaked Document to CBC
The indictment in the probe into the 2005 killing of former Premier Rafik Hariri will be issued later in the month or in early July, a judicial source at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon said.
The source told al-Liwaa newspaper published Monday that the indictment will be issued between June 20 and July 5. He did not give further details.
STL Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare filed an amended indictment last month based on further evidence in the investigation into Hariri’s murder.
The indictment, which is being kept confidential, has to be examined by Pre-trial Judge Daniel Fransen, who has the responsibility of confirming it before arrest warrants or summonses are issued.
The news came amid another report by al-Akhbar newspaper that a Canadian investigator was responsible for leaking a document on Hariri’s case to the Canadian broadcaster CBC.
CBC aired a documentary in November last year citing unidentified sources saying that U.N. investigators had evidence that "points overwhelmingly" to the involvement of Hizbullah members and possibly Lebanon's head of police intelligence Colonel Wissam Hassan in Hariri’s assassination.
Al-Akhbar said that the investigator felt treason when Bellemare, who is also Canadian, decided to replace him with another investigator from another nationality in March 2009.
The man leaked the document to CBC to avenge the STL prosecutor’s move, the newspaper added.
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