Bassil Declines Giving Information on Phone Card Used by Teenager Kidnappers
Telecommunications Minister Jebran Bassil has reportedly denied giving information on a telephone card used by the men who abducted a teenager on Monday, demanding $ 1.5 million ransom.
The Voice of Lebanon radio station on Wednesday said security services investigating the kidnapping of Amin Jihad al-Khansa were declined access to a telephone card used by the kidnappers.
It said that when security services requested from Bassil to provide them with data, the telecommunications minister only gave information on the telephone card, refusing to give "full data."
Khansa, 14, was kidnapped on Monday while waiting for a school bus outside his house in Beirut”s Ghobeiri – airport highway district.
The kidnappers made two telephone calls to the boy”s parents from two separate public phone booths – one at midday Monday from the eastern Bekaa Valley and another on Tuesday likely from al-Jedeideh area.