Saturday, July 23, 2011

Elias Murr in Wikileaks

"briefly as a potential target of the lifting of bank secrecy laws. While Murr seems to have no connection with Hariri's murder -- which took place when Murr was living in Zurich in the aftermath of the September 2004 threats to his life -- he is rumored to have been linked by financial corruption to the four Lebanese generals now in custody. If the GOL decides to probe into the corruption related to the notorious Bank al-Medina collapse, Murr will most likely be implicated over some shady real estate deals. He may be calculating that the sympathy he wins for being a victim of Syrian aggression will help salvage his reputation if the Bank al-Medina secrets are revealed. End comment." (thanks "Ibn Rushd")