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Objection to cash security policies during street movement a while ago (France Press)
The Governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon, Riad Salameh, is under pressure asking him to implement the Cabinet decision to carry out the criminal financial audit, after news spread that some political parties had reached a consensus not to proceed with this. audit.
Today Tuesday, a “National Alliance” indicated in a statement: “The governance of the Bank of Lebanon has refrained from answering many of the questions from the International Criminal Audit Company” Alvarez & Marsal “, under the pretext of bank secrecy, cash and credit laws, and in contradiction with the opinion of the Legislation and Consultation Commission of the Ministry of Justice. 881/2020, which indicated that the Central Bank is obliged to implement the Cabinet’s decision in conducting a financial audit penal.
And he saw in “this position of the government supported by the Banque du Liban, an excuse to evade the detection of corrupt people, the theft of money and their smugglers abroad.”
Although the coalition condemned the Banque du Liban government position and its supporters, it called on the judicial authorities and the various economic and popular forces to exert all forms of pressure on the Governor of the Banque du Liban to comply with the requests of the financial audit company and let go of the hand in this area and affect the finances of all public sector institutions, because success in that is the way. The only thing is to recover the stolen money, to correct the state finances again and to hold responsible those who conspired against the interests of the state and the savings of the Lebanese and bankrupted the treasury.
The coalition considered that “the policy of waste of capacities of the Lebanese State continues”, affirming its support for “various positions that denounce the government position of the Banque du Liban, including the statement issued on 11/2/2020 by the College of Beirut Attorneys “.
The price of the pound today
In the foreign exchange market, the “Banque du Liban” set in a statement the currency trading price between the US dollar and the Lebanese pound in the exchange houses through the electronic application “sayrafa”, and for today exclusively, at a price between 3,850 pounds as a minimum purchase and 3,900 pounds as a maximum sale.
On the black market, the price of the dollar experienced a certain rise, strengthened its position above 7 thousand pounds, and was quoted at 7,050 pounds for purchase and 7,150 pounds for sale, while the average official exchange rate continues being 1507.5 pounds since 1997.
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