The judge investigating the case of Hannibal Gaddafi, the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (1969-2011), decided to reduce his bail from 11 million dollars to 900,000 dollars.
This updated information was quoted by Asharq al Awsat newspaper, citing a court source. Earlier, "Lebanon 24" reported that the Lebanese court decided to release Gaddafi on $11 million bail. According to Asharq al Awsat, the judge's decision does not need any justification and "is final, no one can challenge or obstruct it."
The source also said that the court ordered the lifting of the travel ban and that Gaddafi's son would be able to leave Lebanon "immediately after the payment of bail." According to the newspaper, the decision was made after a two-hour questioning of the late Libyan leader's son in the presence of two of his lawyers at the Palace of Justice in Beirut.
Libya's Government of National Accord previously announced the release of Gaddafi's son. Hannibal Gaddafi, 50, was kidnapped in 2015 by the Shiite Amal movement from neighboring Syria, where he was living as a political exile, and later surrendered to Lebanese law enforcement.
In 2017, the defendant was charged with concealing information about the Shia imam Musa Sadr, who disappeared in Libya in 1978.
