Manager at Made Bank steals 5 million dollars and left Raya Al -Hassan with a residence bond

The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the “Mediterranean Bank”, former Minister Raya Al -Hassan, underwent interrogation in front of Judge Mirna Class yesterday, with crimes of money laundering, forgery and insurance abuse.
At the end of the interrogation, the judge decided to leave it under a residence bond. Al -Hassan had summoned the investigation against the background of a lawsuit filed against her by lawyer Sakhr Al -Hashem on behalf of a number of depositors, after they discovered that their money was “disappeared” from their accounts without they had behaved or spent it under checks or transferred them abroad or arrested exaggerated them under the circulars of the “Bank of Lebanon”. The complaint is linked to six members of one Lebanese family who have six different accounts in the bank with a total value of five million dollars.
After the start of the economic crisis in Lebanon, they considered that their money is frozen and preferred not to benefit from it in any way awaiting the legislation that will be issued on it, and all of them live outside Lebanon.
But a short period ago, one of the deposites received a call from a manager at the bank, asking her whether she had sent a book in which she asked to transfer the amount of $ 50,000 from her account, and she spoke automatically and then told her husband about the matter that she had a second joint account in the same bank. As a result, the husband contacted the bank’s director of the question, stressing that he had not settled in Lebanese territory for more than three years.
The director was only that she asked him to disclose all the family accounts for more reassurance. After the family members got to know what happened, they decided to travel from Kuwait to Beirut, where they asked to see their accounts, and it was found to them that their assets were “yellowish” and did not remain in one dollar. When they met the Chairman of the Board, Raya Al -Hassan, I informed them that there was a “defect” inside the bank, and that “people” stole the money from the accounts, without clarifying how this process took place and those who bear its responsibility.
I heard from the depositors that they hold the bank responsible, as they deposited their money in it and supposed to be a trustworthy, to inform them of the good investigation. Some time passed before the depositors asked to meet Al -Hassan again to find out the outcome of the investigations, but she refused to receive them. There was nothing left before them to file a lawsuit against the bank’s administration, which led to the interrogation of Al -Hassan yesterday.
Al -Akhbar learned from informed sources that the bank, after the economic and banking crisis, restricted the issuance of checks to one branch, which is the branch of the Sudiko, and therefore it was necessary for every employee or manager who wanted to pay checks in favor of his plane to raise a request, to pass through several other managers, and ultimately with the management of the Sudiko branch.
But the great scandal is that “a collusion between the manager and other officials in important locations in the bank that resulted in a consensus among them on a formula that requires the manager’s authorship of the crime he committed, that is, the theft of five million dollars by buying checks of the value of these accounts, without knowing and selling their owners in the market, then traveling before his summons. Indeed, he confessed to the crime before heading to the airport to travel to Türkiye.”
The case is still in its infancy and the sources suggest that there are partners of the mouse manager, which requires the judiciary to summon all the managers who passed through the checks through them, and the failure of the main administration of the bank to be responsible, and to restrict them to an employee whose depositors do not know and have never met. This caused a large number of depositors who have balances in the bank, to rush to the inspection of their accounts for fear that they would be victims of a similar scenario.