Bahij abou hamze scandal recap
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Support pours on her, with a dedicated Facebook page to her husband’s release and countless social media platforms utilized for his freedom. The case was filed by the chairman of the Safa football team Issam Sayegh, who is currently representing the team.
Abu Hamzeh was earlier charged with impersonating Sayegh by forging documents and using counterfeit papers, but that case was dismissed, a judicial source told The Daily Star.
Abu Hamzeh still faces several other charges filed by Jumblatt.
The lawsuits are the culmination of a dramatic deterioration of relations between Jumblatt and Abu Hamzeh, who used to run Jumlatt’s real estate endeavors and managed his private properties for more than two decades.
Abu Hamzeh’s family has consistently worked for the Jumblatt family over the past century.
In one of the lawsuits filed by Jumblatt, he accused Abu Hamzeh and business partner Hussein Bdeir of selling him a piece of land that did not actually exist.
Abu Hamzeh is a chemical engineer and a Middle East agent for the U.S.
pharmaceutical company Upjohn, Abu Hamzeh lived in Paris before moving to Lebanon in 1987 at the request of Jumblatt in order to manage the PSP chief’s companies.
He is also the former head of the Association of Oil Importing Companies and served as the head of Safa’s board of trustees.
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Bahij Abu Hamze Freed from Prison, Wahhab Hails Judiciary
Bahij Abu Hamze, a prominent Lebanese businessman, was freed from prison on Thursday after around three years in provisional detention.
Media reports said Abu Hamze arrived home in the afternoon after the Beirut court of appeals revoked a previous ruling by Beirut Examining Magistrate Farid Ajib and ordered Abu Hamze's release without any bail.
MP Walid Jumblat's press office meanwhile issued a statement stressing that Abu Hamze's release does not mean that he has been “acquitted,” noting that a one-year travel ban has been imposed on him and that investigations led by Judge Farid Ajib will continue in Jumblat's latest “fraudulent bankruptcy” lawsuit against Abu Hamze and in ten other lawsuits.
“The travel ban on Abu Hamze for the necessities of investigation prove that there is evidence against him and that the release is merely a measure that any court would take when the legal period of pre-trial detention ends.
While writing this article, updates were pouring. She is speaking to politicians, to the media, utilizing social media and all platforms because there is a father away from his children, and a husband away from his wife.
As for theft charges, there has been no evidence or financial track to missing funds.
This would be the 16th time he would get released from any charges; yet with each release, a new allegation is sent his way.
“Abu Hamzeh is innocent of all embezzlement charges so why is he being arrested for a crime he did not commit?” a family spokesperson confirms.
Mona, a heart broken wife trying to call for justice to be served, remains optimistic of her husband’s freedom.
Mona is confidently facing the corruption in the mysterious case lacking any justice from a spectator’s view. Nothing in it points to innocence and the travel ban against the defendant makes conviction more likely,” Jumblat's office added.
Arab Tawhid Party chief ex-minister Wiam Wahhab had earlier hailed the judiciary over the decision.
“The tyrants have fallen and the judiciary has triumphed,” Wahhab tweeted, saluting Justice Minister Salim Jreissati and the judges Tannous Meshleb, Fadi Oneissi and Suheil Abboud and noting that they have “restored hope in the judiciary.”
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When you glance at Mona Abo Hamzeh on TV, you will see a beautiful and confident woman with an infectious smile.
The investigation of Abu Hamzeh has been conclusive for his innocence, yet he remains behind bars, with a deteriorating health condition that has led to him being hospitalized, leaving behind a torn family, and a wife fighting for her husband’s freedom.
“He had been now at a hospital prison, with his health deteriorating.” Bahij’s wife affirms to me as she sighs with sorrow.
(BEIRUT, LEBANON) — Ex-Jumblatt aide and businessman Bahij Abou Hamze was sentenced to two years in jail and ordered to pay $3.45 million on Friday over charges of breach of trust and embezzlement from the Safa football team, sources told Beirut-based newspaper, The Daily Star.
The decision marks the first sentence against Abou Hamze, the former head of the board of trustees for the football team.
Bahij Abo Hamzeh is a former aide to Walid Jumblatt; later arrested over alleged fraud with a case that was preceded with a deterioration in the relations between the two in 2013.
“We heard warnings that speaking out loud would be a step into the unknown.
Her show, adaptation of the french talk show “Tout le mode en parle” [Talk of the Town], is regarded as one of the most watched talk shows in the region.
Abu Hamze is also the husband of TV personality Mona Abou Hamze, most notable for “Talk of the Town” on MTV Lebanon.
Abu Hamzeh’s lawyers have been petitioning for charges against the defendant to be dropped. How can a human being not be treated fairly and according to a system of justice especially with a deteriorating health conditions?
Answers that only faith in the Lebanese Justice System can answer, and hopefully lead to reuniting Bahij with his family, and to continue his work being the breadwinner of a tormented family.
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And for the irony — and tragedy — , she has become the talk of the town, attracting the sympathy and support of her beloved Lebanon, but not its judicial system.
Her picture-perfect life with her family— husband Bahij Abo Hamzeh, three kids Ayman, Yasmine and Eyad — would witness turmoil when Progressive Socialist Party Leader Walid Jumblatt would start what has become a war.
A judge called for Bahij’s innocence, yet charges remain at large for charges related to “fraudulent bankruptcy” at a company Bahij was running. How can someone be imprisoned with lack of evidence? “It has been three years of detention, based on suspicion with no evidence.” she continues.
You will often see Mona defending her husband, trying to save her family from more tragedies that injustice had brought upon them.
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They told us that speaking out loud would not lead to anything, but it is our duty to tell everyone what happened with Bahij Abu Hamzeh,” the family told reporters in Lebanon in a televised news conference.
From the concept of speaking out loud, this case took many turns since it started in 2013. I couldn’t understand the latter as that same company still runs, with employees and financial affairs circulating.
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Bahij, the family’s breadwinner, has been now in Roumieh prison in Lebanon (in the medical facility of the prison).