Police raid NSSF as part of embezzlement probe
Written by Najib

 

Lebanese police raided the National Social Security Fund in Beirut Saturday, seizing potentially incriminating documents linked to an ongoing embezzlement probe, a judicial source said.

 

The NSSF, however, denied its offices in the Beirut neighborhood of Wata Msaitbeh had been raided and said the incident was related to a “violation committed by a citizen” involved in a NSSF transaction. The judicial source said the operation by the Internal Security Forces’ Information Branch targeted the NSSF headquarters and surrounding buildings that are linked with the state-run institution. The raid came after authorities were alerted to a possible attempt to destroy NSSF documents that could be used in an ongoing embezzlement probe by Lebanon’s Financial Prosecutor, the source added. [Link]