Police broke into Nahas’ room at the city’s famed Carlton hotel in August 2007 and arrested him after a lengthy investigation involving wiretaps, which helped them identify Nahas and seven others as key members of the vice ring.
Nahas denies he was running a prostitution ring but admits he arranged for women to come to Cannes during the festival. His job, he says, was to pick them up at Nice International Airport, bring them to the port at Cannes and place them on small boats that took them out to Gadhafi’s yacht, the Che Guevara, and other luxury vessels. “Why me?” asks Nahas during a phone interview with THR from Beirut.“I booked a hotel for them, but they were refused entrance; so where is the crime here?” Nahas told Elaph website. “I was not party to anything else,” insists Nahas. “I don’t know what took place between any of them. I had no part of it. They may have just been there to talk and have fun.”
When Nahas was arrested, police confiscated an address book that contained dozens of names and contact information for some of the richest princes and potentates in the Middle East. Nahas admits that he knew them all but denies that he procured hookers for them. “I spent four days under investigation during which I was put under all forms of psychological torture because the Jewish investigator found an Arab victim upon whom to unleash all his malice and hatred,” Nahas told a press conference in Beirut in 2008.
Nahas — who was jailed for 11 months after his arrest in France then released for lack of proof. Nahas says the younger Gadhafi sent him $25,000 a month to live on after his reputation was ruined in Lebanon and he could no longer work. Investigators never questioned the son, Moatessem. The trial was marked by claims that French police had cut short their inquiries for fear of unearthing evidence that could have upset the then Libyan ruler at a time when Paris was seeking to curry favour with him.
Media reports suggested that former French president Nicolas Sarkozy might have played a role in the release of Nahas and the closure of the case to avoid an escalation that could expose his wife Bruni. Four months after Francois Hollande was elected as the new French president, the case was reopened. Six men and a woman were on trial in the southern French port city of Marseille but the five chief figures -- including Nahas --all fled from France.
Three who were present in the court:
Sabrina Samari, an escort girl from Cannes. The 32-year-old from Cannes, admitted her role as a matchmaker and prostitute, saying she was "ashamed." She was given a two-year suspended sentence.
Felix Farias a Venezuelan who headed Nahas’s agency in Caracas. Earlier he had caused a scandal in 2007 when he turned up at Paris airport with eight young women (including one who was a minor) to attend the Cannes Film Festival. He got a three-year jail sentence of which two years were suspended.
Antoine El Khoury, a Lebanese chauffeur at Cannes Film Festival, who was sentenced to 18 months in jail.
Nahas was tried in absentia along with Antoine Medawar, who was described as "deputy of Nahas", and Charbel Chidiac, his other Lebanese accomplice. They were given prison sentences ranging from three to six years. Moatessem was killed with his father in Libya in 2011. Since Gadhafi’s death, the money has dried up. “I cry blood for him every day,” says Nahas.
He hopes that his eight-year prison sentence, slapped on him in absentia by a French judge after a trial in Marseilles in October, will be overturned on appeal this year, but he’s not overly optimistic. In fact, he also is fearful that if he leaves Lebanon, he’ll be picked up by Interpol.
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