A former president calls for the imprisonment of those whose salaries were millions of pounds and transferred millions of dollars abroad

The former President of the Republic, General Emile Lahoud, considered that “some of the voices that we heard yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies, requesting the use of the $ 17 billion, that is, the sum of the deposits of the remaining people, to finance the Electricity Advances, suggests that the political class has led the Lebanese to a dead end, and that there is no solution in front of them except a cold lick ”.

Lahoud added, in a statement: “This proposal prompts us to ask ourselves about the destination of remittances from politicians outside Lebanon, and this matter does not require the intervention of states or the transfer of companies, rather their numbers can be obtained. easily. And since the banking sector was massacred by this political authority and its greedy associates, bank secrecy is no longer a compelling justification for Lebanese being deprived of knowing the identity of current and former politicians and employees whose salaries do not exceed those. millions of pounds, and yet they transferred millions of dollars abroad.

Lahoud added: “The solution is to imprison these people and confiscate their money, and then we can buy electricity with their looted money and not with the money of the people who were collected with the sweat of our brow and who we are pressing today to the despair, as if there was no other solution. “

Lahoud stressed that “the financial audit begins with the liberation of the hand of the Banque du Liban by revealing the accounts of politicians who have assumed public responsibilities, and all claim to have clean hands, to know how much they have been looted, and we will discover then that these funds are capable of financing debts and moving the economy forward again, and it is true that this measure has a legal force that far exceeds the “legality” of the methods used to steal money and then smuggle it.

Lahoud concluded: “Some of the people who starve and loot their money are lecturing today on chastity. What is worse when theft and insolence are found in a man.”