On Wednesday, reporter Firas Hatoum revealed that the Rhosus, which carried the #AmmoniumNitrate from Georgia to the #BeirutPort, was only one of several similar ships.
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After tracing the journey of all the ships that left Georgia between 2012 and 2014, four were found to have already docked in #Beirut, #Tripoli and #Tartus.
According to Hatoum's investigative report aired on Al-Jadeed, the four ships are part of the #Odessa Network,
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a group of businessmen, companies and ships accused of transporting arms and war cargo from #Russia and Ukraine to the #AssadRegime in Syria since 2011.
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The Georgian Ministry of Trade recorded the export of 44,335 tons of #AmmoniumNitrate between 2012 and 2014 to the supposed destination of Mozambique,
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but the World Bank's World Integrated Trade Solutions website (WITS) confirms that #Mozambique did not import any shipment of that substance.
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The locations of the missing tons remains unknown, except for the approximate 2,750 tons whose fate was revealed by the port of Beirut on August 4, 2020.
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The #AssociationofBanks (ABL) announced on Thursday that it will go on an open strike starting next Monday, to protest the “malicious lawsuits against banks, which have resulted in arbitrary and populist rulings.”
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The ABL will follow up on this decision at its next regular meeting, held on August 10.
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Between these two dates, the local economy will not be able to receive incoming remittances or to open credit lines for imports. #Dollar sales through the Sayrafa platform will also be halted, and society will be hostage to the blackmail of banks.
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أعلنت #جمعية_المصارف، أمس الخميس، أنّها ستدخل إضراباً مفتوحاً بدءاً من الإثنين المقبل، احتجاجاً على «الدعاوى الكيديّة التي تتعرّض لها #المصارف، والتي تُصدر فيها بعض الأحكام الاعتباطيّة والشعبويّة».
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وستتابع الجمعية هذا القرار في اجتماعها الدوري المقبل، المنعقد في العاشر من آب الحالي.
بين التاريخَين، سيُمنَع الاقتصاد المحلّي من تلقّي التحويلات الواردة وفتح الاعتمادات للاستيراد، بالإضافة إلى وقف عمليّات بيع الدولار عبر منصّة صيرفة، وسيكون المجتمع رهينةً لابتزاز #المصارف.
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يُذكَر أنّ رئيس مجلس إدارة بنك الاعتماد المصرفي أوقِفَ في مطلع الشهر الحالي، وقد تذرّعت الجمعية بهذه الحادثة في بيانها لإعلان عصيانها المالي.
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كشف الصحافي فراس حاطوم، أمس الأربعاء، أنّ #سفينة_روزوس التي نقلت #نترات_الأمونيوم من جورجيا ورست في #مرفأ_بيروت قد لا تكن إلّا واحدة من مجموعة بواخر مماثلة.
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وبعد ترصُّد مسار جميع البواخر التي غادرت جورجيا، بين عامَي 2012 و2014، تبيّن أنّ 4 منها قد وصلت بالفعل إلى #بيروت وطرابلس و #طرطوس
وبحسب ما عرضه حاطوم في تحقيقه الاستقصائي على «الجديد»، تنتمي هذه البواخر الأربعة إلى شبكة «#أوديسا»،
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وهي شبكة لرجال أعمال وشركات وسفن مُتّهمين بنقل السلاح والقطع الحربية من #روسيا وأوكرانيا لصالح #نظام_الأسد في سوريا، منذ عام 2011.
أمّا لناحية الكمّيات، فقد سجّلت وزارة التجارة الجورجيّة تصدير 44,335 طنّاً من نترات الأمونيوم بين عامَي 2012 و2014، بوجهةٍ مُفترضة هي الموزمبيق،
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#LilianeCheaito hugged her son Ali Hodroj today, for the first time in two years. She had been deprived of seeing him since she was injured in the #August4Explosion and fell into a coma.
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For long months, a doll was placed in her arms to compensate for his absence at her side.
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The Ja'fari Court had denied Liliane custody of her son, and allowed him to visit her only 4 hours a day, but that decision was not implemented when her husband appealed it.
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The families of the victims and martyrs of the #BeirutPortExplosion asked the #UnitedNations Human Rights Council on Thursday, to form an international investigation committee into the August 4 explosion,
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two years after the crime. Delegations from the families also reached out to parliamentary blocs who are not involved in the investigation and to some foreign ambassadors to endorse their request.
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Additionally, 11 Lebanese and international human rights organizations submitted a request, on Tuesday, to form an international fact-finding mission.
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The people who assaulted press photographer Hassan Shaaban reiterated their threat to him with a bullet stuck to his car window, after he was attacked on Wednesday night by #Hezbollah supporters.
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The assault happened after Shaaban filmed residents of the town of Beit Yahoun in #BintJbeil protesting the water shortage in their homes for several consecutive days.
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With his camera, Shaaban conveyed the suffering of southerners, notably among the Shiite duo's supporters who complained that "we have money and weapons, but we have no water." The two parties' thugs threatened to kill Shaaban if he did not leave town.
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