05
Apr
2019
Arrest of both the real estate agent (R.A.) and the employee (F.S,) for the possession of official documents, contracts and maps belonging to the real estate departments in Jounieh and Jbeil
The General Directorate of State Security – Section of Media, Orientation, and Public Relations issued the following statement:
As part of its ongoing work in combating corruption, the General Directorate of State Security, in coordination with the Lebanese Army Directorate of Intelligence and under the supervision of the general Prosecutor, listened to the statement of a number of employees of the Real Property Registry Bureau in Jounieh and Jbeil, and after obtaining the permission from HE the Minister of Finance to prosecute the violations perpetrated in the said places, and as a result of the investigation conducted by the Directorate, it arrested both the real estate agent (R.A.) and the employee (F.S,) for the possession of official documents, contracts and maps belonging to the real estate departments in Jounieh and Jbeil, which are banned for circulation outside the official departments, offering bribes to complete transactions, and the rest were either released upon a residence guarantee or set free.
The suspects and the seizures were handed over to the General Financial Prosecutor Office for further investigation.