Finance and Budget Committee convenes over forensic audit

The Finance and Budget Parliamentary Committee convened Monday to discuss the Alvarez & Marsal preliminary forensic audit report and question the government and the central bank governor about financial reform laws.

Minister of Finance Youssef al-Khalil and Interim Central Bank Governor Wassim Mansouri attended the meeting. Minister of Justice Henry Khoury also attended the meeting to give answers about the judicial course of the audits.

"The forensic audit of the Central Bank, ministries and state administrations' accounts must resume," Free Patriotic Movement MP Ibrahim Kanaan, who chairs the committee, said after the meeting.

The Finance and Budget Committee will meet next week with the Central Bank and the relevant ministries in successive sessions on reform laws.

The upcoming sessions will discuss restructuring banks, restoring financial stability, and conducting an impartial audit of the banks and the state's accounts, Kanaan said.