Lebanon released late Libya President Muammar Gaddafi's son on November 10 after he paid a $900,000 bond, ending a 10-year detention for khuding information about a missing Lebanese teacher.
Charbel Milad al-Khoury - one of Hannibal Gaddafi's lawyers - said that the customer was released on the evening of November 10 after completing the necessary paperwork.
Hannibal is officially given free agency and has full authority to choose the destination he wants, said Al-Khoury, who declined to provide further details about his bosss future activities over security concerns.
Two unnamed security officials also confirmed that Gaddafi had been released.
The release came days after Lebanese authorities lifted an exit ban and reduced Hannibal Gaddafi's guarantees, paving the way for the release of the son of the late leader of Lebanon.
The Lebanese judiciary's decision on November 6 to lift an exit ban and reduce the release bond from $11 million to $900,000 came days after a Libya delegation visited Lebanon and made progress in negotiations on the release of Hannibal Gaddafi.
In mid-October, a Lebanese judge ordered Hannibal Gaddafi to be released on $11 million in a $11 million bond but banned him from leaving Lebanon.
Two judicial officials and a security official revealed that the security deposit was paid by the Libya mission. The Tripoli government's Ministry of Justice also posted on social media platforms information that the Libya delegation had paid the guarantee.
Libya has formally demanded the release of Hannibal Gaddafi in 2023, citing his poor health after a hunger strike in protest of being detained without trial.
Hannibal Gaddafi had lived in exiledity in Syria with his wife Aline Skaf - a Lebanese citizen - and children until he was kidnapped in 2015 and taken to Lebanon by Lebanese fighters.
Lebanese police later announced that they had arrested Hannibal Gaddafi in the city of Baalbek, northeastern Lebanon and since then detained him in a prison in Beirut, where he was questioned about the disappearance of teacher al-Sadr.
Detained in Lebanon in 2015, Hannibal Gaddafi was accused of concealing information about the fate of Lebanese Shiite teacher Moussa al-Sadr - who went missing during a trip to Libya in 1978, although Hannibal Gaddafi was under 3 years old at the time.
Muammar Gaddafi was killed by opposition fighters during the Libya rebellion in 2011. Hannibal Gaddafi fled to Algeria to live with his mother and some other relatives after his father was overthrown. He then moved to Syria, where he was granted political asylum and remained there until he was kidnapped.
