The Prosecution Office of the Beirut Bar Association regarding the August 4, 2020 explosion announced, in a statement, that “within the framework of the ongoing trial in London before the High Court of Justice-London against the English company SAVARO Ltd, in the matter of its civil liability in the August 4, 2020 explosion , the Office of the Prosecutor obtained from the Companies House a new decision to extend the suspension of the liquidation process of this company (until June 2023), which had tried to evade its responsibility by requesting its removal from the Trade Register before the Office of the Prosecutor intervened to confront it, along with other lawyers , for this attempt with the trade register, and then the prosecution office sued the company civilly before the English court.
Lawyers Kamil Abu Suleiman and Nasri Diab stated that “the trial is proceeding at an accelerated pace, and two sessions were held, the last of which was in November 2022, and a number of important preparatory decisions were issued in favor of the victims, which will be disclosed later.” They hope that, “for the first time since the explosion, the identity of one of the parties will be judicially determined (and there are many officials in this hyperlinked file), which constitutes an important step on the long path of truth.”
The head of the Beirut Bar Association, Nader Kaspar, hopes that “the trial will be crowned with the desired result, and that this will be the beginning of other decisions issued in Lebanon.”
Savaro Ltd., according to Lebanon investigative journalists say chartered the shipment, intending to take the Ammonium nitrates from Georgia to an explosives firm in Mozambique.
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