Student families abroad: banks lie Phalanxes

The Association of Banks continues to impose miraculous conditions on student financial transfers.

A few days ago, the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jan Kopitsch, in a tweet on Twitter, asked Lebanese banks to immediately release the transfer of funds necessary for Lebanese students stranded abroad in difficult circumstances. He asked her to treat them as if the mother were treating her children and not treating the bad wife of her maternal aunt, because they understand the future of the country and should not be treated harshly.

Kubic’s speech comes after 4 months of the Lebanese government’s failure to find a mechanism to transfer student fees and expenses, approve the college dollar, and banks collude with political authority to refrain from lifting the restrictions. to transfers or treat them like their colleagues at private universities in Lebanon who have so far received their premiums at the official exchange rate (£ 1515).
The tweet intersects with a warning to yesterday’s Parent Committee, that banks suggest they did not stop or impede transfers to students at any time, and that the denial relates only to a lack of documents. The committee was surprised by what the President of the Association of Banks, Salim Sfeir, announced after a meeting with Prime Minister Hassan Diab that “banks will continue to transfer university fees according to documents presented to the bank by the student’s family, such as the rental document for housing and others, “while” most Lebanese know that Bank transfers to students have been completely suspended since October 2019 without any legal or legal rights, except that some they have designated themselves as guardians of the money of the Lebanese who paid the price for financial policies in which they had no shares or profits other than to confiscate their money and accounts. ”With the Association of Banks“ continues to set conditions impossible, even asking for new dollars as if banks became money transfer companies !
The Parents Committee recalled that the Banque du Liban circulars issued in this regard “remained ink on paper and did not compel banks to transfer money to students, and therefore compelled them to comply with their legal obligations and not to arrest the funds of the Lebanese in general and of the students in particular, because their tragedy doubles their presence abroad in light of the Corona pandemic, as they were left to face their fate penniless. ”

After the banks agreed to a proposal by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to issue a form to be completed by the students that contained all the information related to them, specifically the “documents” to send to the bank in question and the transfer was approved, more Two thousand students sent these forms to be surprised by people with a television conversation with the Director of Political Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ghady Khoury By authority of the banks, they approved one of the bank transfer requests of 2000.

“What documents is Safir talking about today?” The committee asked if the banks had rejected documents certified by the embassies of the republic that claim to comply with their laws, “knowing that the tone of the documents is basically rejected. It is not the banks that have the right to demand the Lebanese documents to prove their funds, but the Lebanese have the right to demand from the banks the documents that teach them about the destination of their deposits.
Regarding the people, “There is no solution for the state except to demonstrate its responsible abuse by approving the student dollar at 1515 Lebanese pounds and therefore supporting this dollar in the same way as the medical, food or oil dollar, and that Prime Minister and Finance Minister Ghazi Wezen assume their responsibilities towards students who do not own their families. Dollar accounts for being employees, accounts and wages in Lebanese pounds.