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Ammon News - By Wael Jaraysheh

AMMONNEWS - Speaker of the Lower House of Parliament Faisal Fayez announced on Monday that MPs voted in favor of indicting former Minister of Tourism Osama Dabbas for involvement in the Dead Sea Casino deal.

In its first deliberations during the parliamentary extraordinary session, 86 MPs voted in favor of indicting the former minister in Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit's first term (2005-2007), and 23 MPs voted against the indictment.

3 MPs abstained from voting, while 7 others were absent from the session.

Dabbas had attended the parliamentary extraordinary session on Monday in which MPs deliberated on the Dead Sea Casino scandal, signed in 2007 in Bakhit's first term.

The House's decision to charge Dabbas comes despite the former minister's statements earlier this week during a meeting with members of his tribe in Salt that he will not be "scapegoated" in the major scandal which stirred public opinion criticism in the past few years.

Dabbas had accused former minister of justice, former chief of the Royal Hashemite Court, Bassim Awadallah, and former intelligence chief Muhammad Dahabi for the scandal.