There's something I don't get in this story. Based on Wikipedia/Aljazeera: Customs officials had sent letters to judges requesting a resolution to the issu

There's something I don't get in this story. Based on Wikipedia/Aljazeera: Customs officials had sent letters to judges requesting a resolution to the issu e of the confiscated cargo, proposing that the ammonium nitrate be either export ed, given to the army, or sold to the private Lebanese Explosives Company. Lette rs had been sent on [...]. One of the letters sent in 2016 noted that judges had not replied to previous requests Have the authorities been so indolent that they avoided "doing some paperwork", and indirectly causing a catastrophe, or the proposal of selling the material was not realistic?