The statement announced that MP Kanaan, through his legal representative, lawyer Amin Abdel Karim, has filed a complaint under number 29803 before the Public Prosecution Office of Appeal in Baabda, targeting pages and accounts on Facebook, on charges of slander, defamation, libel, and spreading false news. Judge Michel Moawad has referred the file to the Cybercrime Bureau for investigation.
The statement pointed out that the accused promoted two unfounded news items, the first under the title: “After the party made him in North Metn, Kanaan completes his stab in the side and heads for a possible alliance with Geagea,”
and the second came within a series of malicious news under the title: “A Metn MP buys his political position with money.”
The media office confirmed that “these allegations are baseless, as MP Kanaan did not buy his political position as they claim, but proved his parliamentary presence for 20 years and during four election cycles, in which he won first place twice, and succeeded twice despite the targeting campaigns that tried to bring him down and failed.”
It also confirmed that “the talk about requesting an alliance with the head of the Lebanese Forces party, Samir Geagea, is merely a fabrication, as Kanaan had announced in an interview with Annahar website on May 8, 2025, that this issue is not on the table at all and has not been opened from near or far.”
Regarding the allegations about “connection to banks,” the statement clarified that they are “fabricated news refuted by the official minutes and Kanaan’s positions in the Finance and Budget Committee, where demanding the rights of depositors was his main concern, unlike the rumor-mongers who supported the government plans that included writing off deposits, while Kanaan struggled from the beginning to amend them to include a mechanism for their recovery that was adopted in June 2022 and is still awaiting translation from the current government.”
The media office concluded its statement by emphasizing that “resorting to the judiciary to establish the truth and hold the perpetrators accountable will continue, because people’s history, dignity, and credibility are not a game in the hands of charlatans and pages of lies and covering up failure.”
