The Lebanese singer and star Elissa. (Photo taken from her Facebook account)
A $2.7 million fraud case involving Lebanese singer Elissa, which occurred during the economic crisis in 2019, came to light last week when the alleged fraudster, Ali Qassem Hammoud, managed to leave Lebanese territory via Beirut airport, despite an arrest warrant issued against him. The scam, which is under investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office at the Beirut Court of Appeal, headed by Raja Hamoush, has now turned into a security scandal: the wanted man was able to escape through a crossing point that was supposed to be tightly controlled. The case is already in the hands of the government commissioner to the military court, Claude Ghanem, as security service agents may have been involved in facilitating the escape of the suspect.When an arrest warrant is issued by the judiciary, the Internal Security Forces (ISF) are tasked with...
A $2.7 million fraud case involving Lebanese singer Elissa, which occurred during the economic crisis in 2019, came to light last week when the alleged fraudster, Ali Qassem Hammoud, managed to leave Lebanese territory via Beirut airport, despite an arrest warrant issued against him. The scam, which is under investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office at the Beirut Court of Appeal, headed by Raja Hamoush, has now turned into a security scandal: the wanted man was able to escape through a crossing point that was supposed to be tightly controlled. The case is already in the hands of the government commissioner to the military court, Claude Ghanem, as security service agents may have been involved in facilitating the escape of the suspect.When an arrest warrant is issued by the judiciary, the Internal Security Forces (ISF) are tasked with...
