The president of the "Lebanese Democratic Party," Talal Arslan, expressed that a forensic audit is the first step that must be taken to identify the tunnels through which people's money was embezzled and stolen.
Arslan tweeted: "A forensic audit is the first step that should be taken before any other steps, without hesitation or procrastination, as it is the only way to know the tunnels through which people's money was embezzled and stolen." He added: "People have the natural right to know what happened to their savings in order to recover the gifted, stolen, and embezzled money, and any other talk serves only to sow dust in their eyes."
The Swiss attorney general has requested legal assistance from Lebanese authorities to investigate the suspicion that the Governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon, Riad Salameh, his brother Raja Salameh, and his assistant, Marian Hweik, were involved in transferring a total of around $400 million through bank transactions.
Meanwhile, the Swiss newspaper "24 heures" published a report on the case, stating that this initiative comes after the Lebanese public prosecutor had contacted Switzerland a year ago, requesting information about the politicians involved in smuggling $2.4 billion to Switzerland after the autumn uprising of 2019, without receiving a response from Lebanon.
