Report: Army Arrests Municipal Police Sergeant for Aiding Hoblos
The army intelligence reportedly detained a police sergeant at the municipality of the northern city of Tripoli on charges of aiding Sheikh Khaled Hoblos and renting an apartment for him.
According to As Safir newspaper published on Wednesday, Sergeant Mohammed Seifeddine Qader, who is related to Hoblos, had rented two apartments for the sheikh, one in the area of Dahr al-Ain in Koura and another in Tripoli's al-Qobbeh.
Hoblos reportedly moved between the two apartments.
Qader also faces charges related to forging identification papers for Hoblos.
The detainee, according to the report, collected the identification papers of people on the pretext of wanting to grant them aid from the Higher Higher Relief Council.
However, Qader used the identification papers for Hoblos and added his picture on one of them.
The forged identification papers were in the name of Bassem Haitham Toufic Khodr.
Last week, security forces succeeded in arresting Hoblos and killing militant Osama Mansour and Ahmed al-Nazer in an ambush in Tripoli.
Hoblos and Mansour had been wanted for taking part in clashes with the army in Tripoli in October 2014 and were suspected of having links to jihadist organizations in Syria.
Media reports said that Hoblos had underwent plastic surgery to change his appearance and shaved his mustache and beard.
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