A Lebanese court ordered on Thursday the temporary seizure of property owned by two parliamentarians charged in connection with the deadly Beirut port blast of 2020, a judicial source said.
Property worth about $3 million is to be confiscated under the order, which will be formally communicated to MPs Ghazi Zeaiter and Ali Hassan Khalil, charged in December 2020 over the explosion that killed more than 220 people four months earlier.
The exact charges have not been made public as the investigations are classified, but both MPs deny any wrongdoing and have declined to attend interrogation hearings, citing immunity as members of parliament.