Former Palestinian envoy to Lebanon Ashraf Dabbour was placed in provisional detention in Lebanon on Monday following the decision of the public prosecutor at the Court of Cassation, Judge Ahmad Rami al-Hajj, according to Lebanese media reports.
Dabbour was previously arrested, and later released, in April in connection with an international arrest warrant issued through Interpol, based on financial corruption charges brought by the Palestinian Authority.
The prosecution is preparing a report on Dabbour’s case, which Lebanon’s cabinet will use to decide on whether he should be handed over to the PA, according to the Beirut-based news site Al Modon.
Dabbour’s defense team is expected to present a “series of documents intended to prove his innocence” this week, according to information obtained by the site.
Corruption, illicit enrichment, money laundering, abuse of trust
The former Palestinian ambassador served for more than a decade, until he was replaced by Mohammad Assaad in 2025. The PA’s judicial authorities are currently prosecuting him on charges of corruption, illicit enrichment, money laundering, and abuse of trust.
Dabbour has denied the charges, alleging publicly on his Facebook that Yasser Abbas, the son of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, is “exploiting his control over the security services and his influence within the authority to use them to settle his personal scores… by pursuing me with arrest warrants from one place to another.”