{"id":61229,"date":"2020-12-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/61229\/lebanon-to-contact-alvarez-marsal-for-a-forensic-audit-again"},"modified":"2023-08-30T04:20:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T04:20:05","slug":"lebanon-to-contact-alvarez-marsal-for-a-forensic-audit-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/61229\/lebanon-to-contact-alvarez-marsal-for-a-forensic-audit-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon To Contact Alvarez &#038; Marsal For A Forensic Audit&#8230; Again"},"content":{"rendered":"One month after international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/61062\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">auditing firm Alvarez &#038; Marsal terminated its contract with the Lebanese government<\/a>, our ministers are giving it another shot, hoping for a second chance. <br \/>  <br \/>  After meeting earlier today with President Michel Aoun, Lebanon&#8217;s caretaker minister of finance Ghazi Wazni announced that he will be reaching out to Alvarez &#038; Marsal again for a long overdue forensic audit. <br \/>  <br \/>    <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"ar\" dir=\"rtl\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%AF%D9%82%D9%8A%D9%82_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4kckyqgnnx\">https:\/\/t.co\/4kckyqgnnx<\/a><\/p>\u2014 (@ALJADEEDNEWS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ALJADEEDNEWS\/status\/1341669616523866113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 23, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>  <br \/>  <br \/>  This comes after the Lebanese parliament passed a law lifting banking secrecy on the Central Bank and other public institutions for one year in a session held on Monday, thus refuting BDL&#8217;s initial excuse to refusing to hand over necessary documents. <br \/>  <br \/>  Due to BDL&#8217;s lack of cooperation and receiving less than 50% of the information they need, the auditing firm terminated its contract with the Lebanese government end of November.<br \/>  <br \/>  The company was hired back in July to perform a forensic audit on the Central Bank and determine the whereabouts of huge sums of money that are currently unaccounted for, to no avail.<br \/>  <br \/>  Will we get answers this time? 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