Lebanese investigating judge Tarek Bitar is expected to travel to Bulgaria on Wednesday. Igor Grechushkin is a Russian-Cypriot ship operator linked to the 2020 Beirut port explosion. Bulgarian authorities have been “very cooperative,” and questioning will proceed regardless of the status of the extradition request, a source said. GrechUSHkin’s lawyer, Ekaterina Dimitrova, said the Bulgarian court refused Lebanon’S extradition request on December 10.
Source: OCCRP, 2025-12-18; https://www.occrp.org/en/news/lebanese-judge-to-question-beirut-blast-suspect-in-bulgaria