2023-07-05 12:06:08
It was stated in “Akhbar Al-Youm”:
Senior judicial sources were surprised by a newspaper’s “boast” that it had obtained the minutes of hearing the assistant governor of the Banque du Liban, Marianne Howayek, and denounced that the investigation records were leaked in one of the most important financial files that Lebanon and the world are following up on highly sensitive and complex cases.
The sources confirmed to Akhbar Al-Youm Agency that the mere leaking of the minutes, regardless of its content, confirms that someone is working on purpose to politicize the file and incite public opinion in a manner contrary to the truth, especially since reading the content of Al-Huwaik’s testimony confirms that whoever leaks and interprets it works in politics. Not in the judiciary and the law.
The sources asserted that the mere occurrence of the leak prompts questioning of the entire judicial process and places it in the category of suspicion due to the fall of secrecy regarding it, surprising the insistence on using it in a political context that is not in its proper place, while the principle of secrecy of investigations is sacred, just as the principle of the presumption of innocence cannot be touched. .
The sources indicated that the leaks of the investigation records in this file reminded of all the previous political files in which the judiciary was used for suspicious purposes, considering that the misreading that the newspaper tried to make to benefit Al-Huwaik in more than one point confirms the politicization of the file, especially since those who publish do not understand the legal backgrounds and readings. In this case, it is enough to point out two points:
The first is that Al-Huwaik obtaining funds from the Governor of the Banque du Liban, if this accusation is true, does not make her accused of money laundering because she is not responsible for the source of the funds.
The second, which indicates an absolute ignorance of banking work, and is related to an attempt to talk regarding a contradiction in Al-Huwaik’s statement regarding the subject of her banking experience when she confirmed her experience in banking work before returning and confirming that she had no experience in the compliance or the “compliance unit”, and in this confession she is a literalist because she does not claim Something she has no experience with, especially since the “compliance unit” in all banks has become a stand-alone specialty that is handled by experts and is not mastered by the majority of bank managers and officials who seek the help of experts in this field, so how do they ask Marian Howayek to be alone in all the details of banking work?
And while the sources warned once morest any politicization that began to appear strongly in the file, through intensive political and media campaigns, they concluded by stressing the need to keep the file within its judicial framework so that the judiciary can say its word and not those with political goals.
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