A military Lebanese court yesterday sentenced the former Lebanese Minister Michel Samaha to four and half a year over charges related to smuggling explosives from Syria to Lebanon, judicial sources said.
The court said that Samaha, who was arrested in August 2012, was involved in planning with the Chief of the Syrian National Security Services Brigadier General Ali Al-Mamlouk to smuggle explosives to Lebanon in order to target Syrian political, religious and rebel leaders.
Judicial sources said that Samaha, the former information minister who was also stripped of his civic and political rights, was found guilty of “trying to carry out terrorist actions in Lebanon”.
Samaha will be released at the end of this year because of time he has already served in jail and because the judicial year in Lebanon is nine months.