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LONDON (Reuters) - A Lebanese lawyers’ association has asked British authorities to halt the voluntary liquidation of a UK-registered company over possible links to last year’s explosion at Beirut port, according to a letter seen by Reuters.
FILE PHOTO: Smoke rises from the site of an explosion in Beirut s port area, Lebanon August 4, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
In the Jan. 25 letter to British lawmaker Margaret Hodge, the Beirut Bar Association (BBA) said it had asked the UK corporate registry, Companies House, to prevent the company, Savaro Ltd., which it described as an “indicted entity”, from being wound up in order to allow investigations into its possible role in the blast to continue.
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The investigation into the horrifying explosion that destroyed Beirut is under siege, although it came down on half the capital and inflicted injuries and traumas that people will not recover from for a long time.
The influential parties are dying to obstruct it and hinder the prosecution of the politicians who were proved to be suspects by the initial interrogations. They invoked their parliamentary immunity on the one hand and took advantage of the lockdown imposed by the dangerous spread of coronavirus on the other… Both provided pretexts for “putting limitations” on the dangerous trial of the biggest crime in Lebanon s history and perhaps among the world’s biggest.