Today, Wednesday, Lebanese security sources revealed part of the circumstances of the killing of Mohammed Sarur, who was sanctioned for transferring millions of dollars to the Hamas movement.
A week after his disappearance, Sarur's body was found in a house in the settlement of Beit Mary in Mount Lebanon, riddled with bullets.
Soror comes from a town in northeastern Lebanon near the Syrian border, and operated in the field of money exchange and money transfer, among other things between groups supported by Iran as well as between anti-Israeli groups.
The US Department of the Treasury imposed sanctions on Sarur (age 57) in August 2019, for providing "financial, material and technical support, financial and other services" to Hamas as well as because of his affiliation with Hezbollah.
Two legal officials told the Associated Press that Sarur was lured to a woman's home, east of Beirut in Beit Mary, where he was shot 6 times.
The two officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the investigation into his killing would continue.
Reuters quoted a security source as saying that Sarur was found stabbed to death with multiple gunshot wounds to his legs along with a large sum of money, which led the Lebanese security forces to conclude that he was interrogated under severe torture, and that this was not a case of attempted robbery.