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Deferred an invoice to recover money transferred abroad
Yesterday (Monday), the Lebanese parliament approved the bill aimed at lifting banking secrecy in the accounts of the Central Bank, ministries and departments for a year, in a measure described by most parliamentary blocs as positive.
The House of Representatives approved the urgent and repeated bill aimed at suspending bank secrecy for a period of one year, in accordance with the decision issued by the House of Representatives that approved a recommendation to submit the accounts of the Banque du Liban, ministries, independent interests, councils, funds and public institutions, in parallel, to criminal scrutiny, during a public session that was conducted in a constructive manner. To a letter sent by President Michel Aoun to Parliament to cooperate with the Executive Authority in order to allow the state to conduct criminal financial audits of the Bank of Lebanon accounts. The message came after the withdrawal of the consulting firm Álvarez y Marsal from an agreement signed with the Lebanese government to review and audit the accounts of the Central Bank.
Aoun expressed his gratitude for the approval by Parliament of the bill to lift bank secrecy for all those who deal with public affairs in the Banque du Liban, ministries and public administrations, and link it to criminal scrutiny, considering that the Parliament’s response to the message addressed to him on November 24, 2020 translated his wish. That the anti-corruption file be put into practice “because it is the way to achieve the long-awaited reforms that the Lebanese people demand and that States and international organizations encourage us to do.” Aoun hoped that, after lifting the bank secrecy, the criminal audit would continue on its way to implementation to convict the perpetrators according to the evidence that will be available as a result of this audit.
A member of the “Strong Republic” bloc (which includes representatives of the Lebanese Forces), Congressman George Adwan, said that the approval of this law is an “achievement”, especially since “all the blocs came together to start a new page for the sake of accountability, “explaining that” raising bank secrecy has become a law and is not possible. ” Anyone can invoke anything to reject criminal scrutiny “, which would allow knowing” all the irregularities and corruption that occurred in the past. “
For his part, a member of the “Development and Liberation” bloc (which includes deputies from the Amal Movement), Deputy Ali Hassan Khalil said that the most important thing in yesterday’s legislative session was “to resolve the issue in a developed way and unquestionable clarification of the lifting of bank secrecy in all accounts related to the criminal audit file “, considering that the approval of this law is” an important page in the history and work of Parliament. ” Khalil said that after the approval of the bank secrecy law, “there is no order to prevent criminal scrutiny, without compromising the nature and composition of the Lebanese system, and leaving it with negative long-term effects.”
As for the secretary of the block “Strong Lebanon” (which includes the deputies of the movement), the deputy Ibrahim Kanaan, promised that “Parliament has shown its seriousness with criminal scrutiny, has legally translated the request of the president and the protection of depositors funds took its correct practical course “, adding that” what happened yesterday must begin with Siguelos. “
In this context, a member of the “Al-Wafa for the Resistance” bloc (which includes Hezbollah representatives) said that after the ratification of the bank secrecy law related to criminal audit, “we can start with the Bank of Lebanon. “, adding that the task of the government that resigned today is” to contract with a company to start working. Know the facts. “
On the other hand, the president of the parliament, Nabih Berri, affirmed, after opening the legislative session yesterday, that the parliament – according to the constitution, “will be in permanent session with the presence of a resigned government”, saying in response to the request of the deputy “Forces” Pierre Bou Assi, to abide by the legislation of necessity: “This council is called Legislative Council and we will not see each other.”
And Bou Asi pointed out at the opening of the session that “the legislation of necessity is a definition, since it is legislation that if it does not cause immediate and direct damage, and cannot be compensated, to the interests of the people and the State” .
The session featured an intervention by deputy Bilal Abdullah on behalf of the bloc “Democratic Rally” (which includes the deputies of the Socialist Party), in which he considered that the Lebanese political system is “like a patient who is dying and refuses to enter intensive care … he is stubborn, arrogant, defiant, threatening, threatening, while all the indicators of his life are in the background. “
Abdullah called on everyone “to get out of the intensive care room, so that he can enter the patient – that is, the homeland – and inject him with the drugs of sovereignty, brotherly and enemy, and counter-wagering abroad, all out, east or west. “
The Chamber of Deputies approved, in its session yesterday, several laws, including the law to punish the crime of sexual harassment, especially in the workplace, and an accelerated and repeated law aimed at extending the validity of the provisions to suspend legal procedures derived from non-compliance in the payment of loans in a reformed way, and the accelerated and reiterated law proposal aimed at protecting funds from the National Social Security Fund and insured benefits, and a law that exempts from fees to the vehicles, with modifications within a schedule, based on the age of the car and the size of its engine.
All the proposed laws related to amnesty and the reduction of overcrowding in prisons were referred to the subcommittee of the House of Representatives, as well as the redundant expedited bill aimed at recovering the cash and financial portfolios transferred abroad to the commissions. joint, as long as it is fulfilled within a period of 15 days in the commissions, without The final decision was taken yesterday.
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