Mehlis report
The Mehlis report is an investigative report prepared for the United Nations Security Council into the bomb attack on the Lebanese ex-Prime Minister Rafik Hariri on February 14, 2005 in Beirut . Based on the recommendation of the FitzGerald report , the Secretary General of the United Nations , Kofi Annan , commissioned the Berlin Public Prosecutor Detlev Mehlis with the investigation on May 20, 2005. On October 20, 2005, Mehlis submitted the first report to Annan, the Security Council and the Lebanese government.
According to initial press reports, there was evidence that Syrian politicians and military officials were involved in the attack.
Mehlis resigned from his post as commission head on December 15, 2005; his successor was the Belgian lawyer Serge Brammertz .
At the beginning of February 2006, the German commission members were withdrawn by the federal government.