Media sites were abuzz with a post posted by a public chauffeur on his Facebook page, reporting that the artist, Mohamed Al-Dirani, had failed to pay the agreed £3million for Dirani’s transport from Sidon to Jounieh, with the driver who stayed with him for several hours.
The driver, Muhammad Tabbara, indicated that he accompanied Al-Dirani to the Hotel (Golden) near the Antelias Bridge, and waited for him for two hours at the hotel entrance to give him the amount, and contacted the guards of the hotel and the management, and they said, he is in the room and he hasn’t answered us, and you have to make a complaint and this is not the first time he has done this with this act.
After the publication, the management of the Hotel Pavillon excluded al-Dirani from the New Year’s party, and some “victims of al-Dirani” contacted a journalist who shared Tabbara’s publication, who in turn placed in custody what had the security forces.
Subsequently, one of those close to Dirani tried to reach a solution with the driver to pay the amount in exchange for deleting all posts about the artist, but he didn’t respond first. After that, Al-Dirani posted a video clip with a direct threat to the driver, and then the driver posted it.
However, today Tabbara removed all publications related to Al-Dirani and information indicates that he did so after agreeing to a deal where he would get his money from a close associate of Al-Dirani, in exchange for his removal of all the publications. about the incident, including threatening videos.
Yesterday, Tabbara indicated that Al-Dirani’s partner contacted him and said: “Because of you, my family prevented me from talking to him.” , underlining that he had contacted a relative of Al-Dirani to pay the amount.
