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Did Judge Attorney General Judge Ali Ibrahim protect the Governor of the Banque du Liban Riyadh Salameh in case of alteration of the lira’s exchange rate? The origin of this question is that the investigative facts obtained by Al-Akhbar indicate that a large number of money changers confirmed that the Bank of Lebanon was buying them dollars in recent weeks, which contributed to the increase in the price of the dollar against the lira in the parallel market (see the “news” number yesterday) The director of monetary operations of the Central Bank, Mazen Hamdan, also confirmed the same thing during his interrogation the day before yesterday, while speaking of selling dollars of the Bank of Lebanon to the tellers, in addition to buy them dollars, through a direct order from Salama. Although this behavior violates the monetary and credit law and the establishment of the central bank, the Financial Prosecutor decided to leave Hamdan “under investigation”, referring to those responsible for the investigation of the Judicial Police Detachment in the southern suburbs of Beirut, at ask the interlocutor to return the next day (yesterday) to the Detachment Building. And bring documents that prove your statement is true. However, Hamdan returned yesterday to say that he was unable to prepare the required documents, and investigators began until next week. Although the company’s owner, Muktif Exchange and Shipping of Funds, arrested the arrested Ramez Muktif, highlighting his receipts in which he was buying and selling dollars, in less than a day, Judge Ibrahim decided to give Hamdan the deadline he requested. , in the absence of justification for it.
In addition, an additional order indicates that Judge Ibrahim decided to protect Salama, which is that Hamdan informed investigators that he was acting on the order of the Governor of the Bank of Lebanon. In a similar case, the Public Ministry directly requests to hear the statement of the person whose name was mentioned as the decision maker in any case that is being investigated. However, the Malian Attorney General did not do this routine procedure, granting Riad Salama illegal immunity. The law protects integrity in terms of the inability to fire you, except under conditions, but does not protect you from being investigated.
A third reason indicates Ibrahim’s desire to protect security, which was reported by the Minister of Justice, Marie Claude Najm, in the sense that she asked the prosecutor what was published about the Bank of Lebanon participation in increasing the price. of the dollar by buying it from the money changers instead of intervening as a seller to reduce its price or reduce the rate of price collapse. The Lyre, and that Ibrahim replied: None of this is true.
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