Khaberni - Lebanese investigations into the kidnapping file of the retired captain in public security, Ahmad Shukr, three weeks after his disappearance, concluded with a decisive result that he was kidnapped in a precise operation executed by the Israeli Mossad.
The Public Prosecutor Jamal Al-Hajjar ordered the preliminary investigations in the case to be sealed, which involved only one arrest, a citizen residing in Africa believed, according to investigations, to be working for the Israeli Mossad and played a key role in luring and kidnapping Shukr.
During the preliminary investigations, the detained denied any connection to the case, and a judicial source told "Al Sharq Al Awsat" newspaper that the aforementioned detainee did not hold out long in his denial, he later confessed to cooperating with the Mossad and being assigned several tasks, including "luring Ahmad Shukr in preparation for kidnapping him", indicating that the detainee "explicitly confessed to meeting Mossad officers in Africa, who assigned him several tasks, and he was paid between 5 and 10 thousand dollars for each task".
The information indicates that the detainee, who was living in Africa, "had prior knowledge of Ahmad Shukr, which facilitated him in building a trusting relationship with him".
According to the data available to the investigation unit of the Information Division of the Internal Security Forces, the judicial source noted that the detainee, who returned to Lebanon ten days ago to clear himself of the suspicion of involvement in Shukr's disappearance, "rented an apartment owned by the kidnappee in the Shoueifat area, which the investigators considered crucial in understanding how to lure and trap him, alongside other technical and logistical details, strengthened the conviction of the security and judicial agencies that the operation was carried out with high precision and under the direct supervision of a professional intelligence agency".
The detainee's confessions matched the technical evidence, especially concerning the tracking of communications and Shukr's movements, and the timing of his disappearance, which provided additional evidence to the file.
The judicial source clarified that "the investigations were sealed in their preliminary part, and remain open to the possibility of involvement of individuals believed to be on Lebanese territory, in addition to working to uncover the fate of Ahmad Shukr, who remains unknown to this hour".
The judicial source mentioned that Al-Hajjar issued two search and investigation notices against two individuals, the first a Swede of Syrian origin, and the second a Frenchman of Lebanese origin, suspected of luring Shukr from his village of Nabi Sheet to a nearby area of the city of Zahle, under the pretext of assisting them in purchasing a property in the area, and that these individuals disappeared from sight following the disappearance of Shukr, before it was discovered that the Swede had left Lebanon via Beirut International Airport a few hours after Shukr disappeared, while it is not known whether the French individual is in Lebanon or has left in an illegal manner.
So far, the information suggests that the main reason for this operation is the case of the Israeli pilot Ron Arad, who was lost in Lebanon in 1986.
