Lebanon’s Public Prosecutor of the Court of Cassation, Jamal Al-Hajjar, has lifted the travel ban on Judge Tarek Bitar, LBCI reported, allowing him to travel to Bulgaria to question the owner of the Rhosus ship, who is currently in custody there.

Igor Grechushkin, owner of the Rhosus—the vessel that transported the ammonium nitrate behind the catastrophic Beirut blast—was arrested on September 5 at Sofia Airport under an Interpol red notice. While a Bulgarian court refused to extradite him to Lebanon, it granted Bitar’s request to conduct an on-site interrogation.

Bitar has faced charges of “usurping authority,” filed by former Public Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat, an accusation that effectively froze his work and imposed the travel ban.