Measures are expected against former Syrian army chief al-Shehabi
Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 6/6/2000

Well-informed sources in Damascus told the London-based al-Hayat daily that legal and " Baath Party" measure are expected to be taken against former Syrian army chief of staff Hikmat al-Shehabi in the coming few days with the campaign made to fight corruption.

The sources indicated the possibility of lifting " immunity " from one of Syria's parliamentarians who " has piled a big fortune through smuggling."

The sources explained that the retired Lt. Gen. Shehabi, who is also member at the Baath Party leadership did not take part in the four-member committee which supervised the preliminary elections to the 9th regional congress on June 17 and will not take part in the works of the ruling Baath party congress in the country.

Earlier, the Baath party leadership expelled from its membership former Prime Minister Mahmoud al-Zou'bi and sent him to the court under corruption cases.

The sources said " investigations revealed that al-Shehabi played a key role in covering deals made by al-Zou'bi and took part in other deals for his own interest and he also prevented the actual files from reaching President Hafez al-Assad in the recent years."

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