Overview
- The Munich I public prosecutor filed the application in January with the Munich I regional court to keep assets worth about €35 million.
- The request covers already seized commercial properties in Munich and Hamburg and shares in a Düsseldorf real-estate company.
- The underlying criminal proceedings were provisionally discontinued because the accused and other suspects could not be located.
- A trial in Germany can proceed only if the suspects voluntarily appear, as Lebanon does not extradite its nationals.
- Investigators say roughly $330 million was allegedly embezzled and funneled via a British Virgin Islands shell company into European property deals, with German teams traveling to Lebanon to question the accused, his brother, and witnesses including the then finance minister.