BEIRUT: Al-Akhbar reported Friday that the prosecutor for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has submitted a new draft indictment in the attempted assassinations of former Deputy Prime Minister Elias Murr and MP Marwan Hamdeh and in the assassination of former Communist Party leader George Hawi.

The local newspaper also said General Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare had also submitted additional documents related to the indictment in the case of slain five-time former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who was killed in a massive car bomb on Feb. 14, 2005.

When contacted by The Daily Star, STL spokesperson Marten Youssef said it was up to the prosecutor to decide when to file an indictment for review to the pre-trial judge.

"It is also his prerogative to file it confidentially and ex-parte, in which case, we would not be privy to that filing," Youssef said in an email.

Al-Akhbar quoted sources close to the office of the general prosecution as saying that “Bellemare has delivered a new draft indictment” related to the cases of Murr, Hamadeh and Hawi to Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen.

Fransen, the paper said, would assess the indictment and has the ability to ask the prosecution for additional material if the accusation is not sufficient.

The STL, established in 2007 to probe the assassination of Hariri, has established links between Hariri's case and the three politicians.

In October 2004, Hamadeh was targeted by a car bomb which left him seriously wounded, while Murr was targeted on July 12, 2005. Hawi was assassinated on June 21, 2005.

In June 2011, four members of Hezbollah – Mustafa Amine Badreddine, Salim Jamil Ayyash, Hussein Hassan Oneissi and Assad Hassan Sabra – were named in an indictment by the U.N.-backed court.

Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah has said that that the four would never be apprehended, despite calls by Lebanese politicians for the resistance party to hand over the suspects.

Hamadeh has accused Syria and Iran of being behind the spate of assassinations between 2004 and 2010.