Canaan reveals who “escaped” forensic audit

The head of the Finance and Budget Commission, deputy Ibrahim Kanaan, stated that “the lack of real political will is what escaped the criminal audit. It also escaped until the moment of completing the audit of the financial accounts that we have opened its door. on the Finance Committee since 2010, and it showed there was $ 27 billion that they didn’t know how it was being spent. “

In an interview with LBCI’s “Twenty 30” program, Kanaan said: I am against the counterpart “We are not free.” Reaching a result is a duty and producing a national vision that protects us without forgetting the regional and international conditions, the conflicts that surround us and their negative effects.

He noted that “precaution was mandatory from the outset to protect the course of criminal audit through a law that opens bank secrecy in the accounts of the Banque du Liban and all state accounts, and I will present this law in the coming days.” .

Kanaan indicated that the “Capital Control” law is coming to an end in the Finance Committee, after taking into account the IMF’s observations on the matter.

He added: “I am not comfortable with the judicial process on the corruption files, including the random employment file, account cuts, lost transfers, and donations, all of which were subject to oversight by the Finance Committee,” and we made our work “, but the judiciary did not do all its work on that.”

He added: “I have asked that the accounts of the Banque du Liban be audited, not today, but since 2017, and with the official recommendations of the Money Committee that were presented to Parliament and the government, which did not happen.”