Judge Iskander Requests Finance Minister to Provide Copy of Forensic Audit

The National Media Agency reported that on August 14, 2023, the President of the Litigation Authority at the Ministry of Justice, Judge Helena Iskander, sent a letter to Finance Minister Youssef Khalil requesting that he urgently provide her with a copy of the forensic audit carried out by the global auditing firm Alvarez & Marsal, following a Cabinet decision regarding the accounts of the Central Bank of Lebanon. This request aims to enable her to fulfill her duties in recovering public funds and defending the rights of the Lebanese state after joining the public lawsuit filed by the Beirut Public Prosecution on February 23, 2023, against the defendants, former Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, his brother Raja Salameh, and his assistant Mariam El-Houeik, along with anyone else revealed by the investigation, before the investigating judge in Beirut, Charbel Abu Samra.