This guy’s silence isn’t just golden; it’s like he’s got a PhD in secret-keeping. Turns out he’s playing the ultimate family card. He has a very good reason for remaining silent. Her wife’s uncle. ~ Foxella

One celebrity who has been very quiet as of late, who usually interjects his opinion whether we want or not has a very good reason for remaining silent.

The celebrity, who is an A+/A list mostly movie actor who sometime directs, is married to a woman who is part of a family of arms dealers and specifically an uncle who is the largest arms supplier to Hamas and Hezbollah.

So, our celebrity stays quiet.

George Clooney

Amal Clooney
Uncle: Ziad Takieddine
Lebanese-French businessman, described by The Telegraph as an “arms broker”.

His ex-wife, Nicola Johnson, is British-born. She has accused him of tax evasion in France. Takieddine owned Warwick House in London’s Holland Park district via a company in the tax haven of the British Virgin Islands. It was sold to neighbour Brian May for £12 million following the divorce settlement. In 2013 Takieddine was denied entry to the United Kingdom following an “allegation of fraud” and was forced by British police to return to France.

Takieddine is an uncle of Amal Alamuddin, who is married to the actor George Clooney.

Lebanon arrests businessman linked to Sarkozy corruption case – 2020

Lebanese authorities have arrested a Lebanese French businessman who allegedly funnelled millions of euros from former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy during the latter’s 2007 election campaign, a judicial source said.

Ziad Takiedinne was arrested by Lebanon’s elite Information Branch on Thursday night, based on an Interpol arrest warrant originally issued by France, the source told Al Jazeera.

French prosecutors had formally charged Sarkozy with corruption and “membership in a criminal conspiracy” in the Libyan financing case in October.

Takieddine, 70, was being interrogated by security forces on Friday and is set to be questioned by Lebanon’s top prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat on Monday.

Should charges be brought against him, he would likely face trial in Lebanon – rather than be extradited to France – because he is a Lebanese citizen, the source said.

In 2016, the businessman had said he delivered millions of euros in cash from Gaddafi to Sarkozy – claims that he retracted just last month. – Source

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