Adnan Addoum, Former State Prosecutor

Place and date of birth: Born in the Mssaitbe Quarter of Beirut on December 10, 1941. He was raised both in Beirut and in Kaifoun in the Aley district, where his family owned a summer home.
Sect: Sunnite
Married to: Roula Jumaa with two children: Mohammad [born in 1982] and Nada [born in 1979].
Education: Received his primary and secondary education at the International College [American style school adjacent and strongly connected to the American University of Beirut]. Joined the Lebanese University and graduated with a law degree in 1865.
Experience:
1. Joined the Higher Judicial Studies Institute and graduated as full judge in 1968.
2. Appointed right after his graduation in the Beirut Trade Court for three years.
3. Appointed in 1971 as judge in the Jdeidat AI Matn Court [a suburb of Beirut].
4. During the Lebanese war years, he stopped working.
5. In 1982, he was appointed as general prosecutor in South Lebanon.
6. In 1983, he was appointed as chief of the Beirut Bankruptcy Court.
7. In 1988, a year during which a number of Lebanese banks went bankrupt, he was appointed to manage the affairs of the bankrupt banks, and headed the Special Banks Court that was assigned the task of dealing with the matter.
8. In 1993, he was appointed as Chief of the Mount Lebanon Criminal Court, and at the same time, he continued his duties at the Special Banks Court.
9. As of 1989, he has been heading the Disciplinary Council for Judicial Assistants.
10. Member of the Judges Support Fund.
11. Lecturer at the Higher Judicial Studies Institute.
12. Wrote a number studies in the judicial and jurisprudence fields, and passed a number of notable verdicts constituting prominent banking and criminal judgements.
13. Appointed prosecutor general [state prosecutor] on June 6, 1995, succeeding Magistrate Muneef Oweidat.
14. Appointed Minister of Justice in Omar Karami's government, which was formed on October 26, 2004.

Service Termination: In its session of Thursday, April 28, 2005, the government decided to end the services of State Prosecutor Addoum and replace him with Judge Said Mirza. The termination of Addoum's services as well as the services of other security services chiefs was a top demand by the opposition as a result of their possible role in the assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri on February 14, 2005.