The Daily Star - Judge indicts ex-FPM member for slander, libel, December 29th 2011

BEIRUT: Investigative Judge Farid Ajib indicted Wednesday Elie Mahfoud, a former member of the Free Patriotic Movement, for slander and libel over remarks he made about FPM chief MP Michel Aoun.

Mahfoud was indicted over several claims made in his book, “With Thirty Pieces of Silver,” which recounts the period in the late 1980s when Aoun was appointed by former President Amin Gemayel to head an interim military government.

The 2010 book also details what the author describes as the “wars and scourges that he [Aoun] brought upon Lebanon.”

Mahfoud, a lawyer by profession, also published what he claimed to be copies of requests made by Aoun for money transfers worth over $5 million to a personal bank account in Paris.

Aoun was forced out of the country in 1991 and remained in Paris for 15 years. Currently head of the Change Movement within the March 14 coalition, Mahfoud was also indicted on charges of promoting words that damage the “honor, reputation and dignity of [Aoun] and inciting sectarian and racist strife and disrupting general peace.”

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