Former President Michel Aoun stated that the lack of publication of the preliminary report from the forensic auditing company indicates that this report implicates those who received it or implicates a party they wish to protect. He said that the ruling system is attempting to conceal the forensic audit report because it incriminates them, and the challenge today is for all Lebanese people to reveal the contents of this report. He added: "Today they are trying to withhold the report produced by Alvarez & Marsal in an attempt to protect the accused."
Aoun reminded that the forensic audit was unanimously approved in the government, but the following day the Minister of Finance stated that the political party to which he belongs "did not agree to carry out the audit." He affirmed that "the obstacles have not ceased with the aim of stopping the forensic audit, and we have been removing them gradually until it took its course."
He expressed his pain when he sees that the Lebanese people "have become resigned and indifferent to their rights as if life has come to a halt." Aoun mentioned, "I wanted to change the Governor of the Banque du Liban, Riad Salameh, but the Minister of Finance at that time proposed extending his term, and he obtained a two-thirds vote in the Cabinet." He added that the Governor of the Banque du Liban should have left his position at the start of the forensic audit or at least been suspended from practice until the results of the investigation emerged.
