A UN tribunal has suspended a court case related to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri due to a lack of funding.

The UN’s Special Tribunal Lebanon at The Hague said on Tuesday that it has suspended the trial of Salim Jamil Ayyash. Pre-trial hearings were set to begin on June 10, but the tribunal only has funding to conduct proceedings until the end of July. The pre-trial hearings are canceled and future filings are suspended, though the tribunal will reassess if funding becomes available, according to a document signed by three judges.

Hariri and 21 others were killed by a car bombing in Beirut in 2005. Hariri was a prominent Sunni Muslim politician in the country who was an ally of Saudi Arabia and critic of Syria’s past occupation of Lebanon. His son Saad Hariri is currently prime minister-designate of Lebanon and served as prime minister himself most recently from 2016 to 2020.

The tribunal sentenced Salim Jamil Ayyash to five life sentences in December over the Hariri assassination. Ayyash was tried en absentia and remains at large. The tribunal determined that he was affiliated with the Lebanese Shiite Muslim organization Hezbollah, which is an ally of Iran and Syria.