Gebran Bassil Denies Any Links to Dany Al-Khoury Who Was Just Sanctioned By The U.S.
Member of Parliament Gebran Bassil denied any links to the Lebanese businessman Dany Al-Khoury, who was recently sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury.
In a tweet on Thursday, Bassil said, "Dany Khoury is neither my partner in politics nor I'm his partner in business."
“Countries are oppressing people, but there will come a day when the truth will vindicate all the oppressed," he added.
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The tweet of Bassil, who was earlier sanctioned by the US , came in response to sanctions newly imposed by the US Treasury Department on Lebanese businessmen Dany Al-Khoury and Jihad Al-Arab, and MP Jamil Al-Sayed, due to corruption accusations .
The statement that was issued by the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) stated that Al-Khoury is a close business partner to MP Gebran Bassil , which had enabled him to obtain contracts worth millions of dollars, resulting in personal benefits.
The statement also accused Al-Khoury and his company of “dumping toxic waste and refuse [rubbles] into the Mediterranean Sea, poisoning fisheries, and polluting Lebanon’s beaches, all while failing to remedy the garbage crisis,”