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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Maya Gebeily

Lebanon seizes property of two MPs charged over Beirut blast

FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises from the newly collapsed part of the Beirut grain silos damaged during August 2020 blast as Lebanon marks the two-year anniversary of the explosion, in Beirut Lebanon August 4, 2022. REUTERS/Issam Abdallah

A Lebanese court ordered on Thursday the temporary seizure of property owned by two parliamentarians charged in connection with the deadly Beirut port blast of 2020, a judicial source said.

Property worth about $3 million is to be confiscated under the order, which will be formally communicated to MPs Ghazi Zeaiter and Ali Hassan Khalil, charged in December 2020 over the explosion that killed more than 220 people four months earlier.

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