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Al-Akhbar reported that the purchase of the new Touch Building is one of the most important "fraud" operations conducted in the Lebanese state. This operation, described by the Minister of Communication, Mohamed Choucair, as a feat, is only an attempt to "wipe off the defilements" of his predecessor, Jamal al-Jarrah, and cost the Treasury a deficit likely to lead to bankruptcy.
The story began in early 2018 when Touch, the operator of one of the two state-owned mobile phone companies, began looking for a new building for rent and for rent. relocate his administrative offices, replacing the former he was occupying in Medawar, near EDL. This point is considered by the sources of follow-up of the file "contrary to any economic logic, especially as the company's revenues suffered a significant decline, reflecting a decrease in remittances to the public treasury by 20% compared to to 2017 ", but according to the same source," the decision was made by the president The board of directors of Touch Bader Al-Kharafi and the then Minister of Communications, Jamal Al-Jarrah, received the option on a downtown building located on property No. Nabil Karam was contacted and agreed to lease blocks B and C of the property.
Indeed, as part of the negotiation of the lease of the building, two companies were created: the first named "AC Realty Group" on 26/04/2018, owned by 998 shares, including Hussein Ayyash, director of "Audacia Capital "Investments in Dubai, close badociates of Hbadan Fawaz, also based in Kharafi, worked for the company itself, as well as for Qatar First Bank, where he returned and received a maintenance contract from million dollars for the new Touch building. After his role in the company was revealed, Ayyash resigned from the company yesterday and sold his shares. Serge Ayrout and Alaa Marwa (Nabil Karam's attorneys) also hold a stake in the company, which was based in one of the offices of lawyer Marie-Antoinette Ghostine Ayrout (mother of Serge Ayrout) in Badaro. The second company, named BC 1526, was founded on 2/5/2018, six days after the creation of the first company. It is owned by Nabil Karam (2,890 shares) and Minerva Dahan and Maroun El Helou (10 shares each). Karam too.
She explained that "Ayyash (the alleged cover of Badr al-Kharafi) was supposed to own the block and pay it in full after a maximum of ten years of public money, but the exposure of the scandal has stirred the papers, leading to the purchase of the property by Touch to cover the entire process. On 30/7/2019, City Development held a general meeting at which he agreed to "sell all or part of the property", while the sales contract was signed the next day (31/7/2019 ) with MEC 2. $ 68,600,000 (in addition to the $ 6.4 million paid to the AC Realty group). The first payment of $ 23 million and $ 600,000 was transferred on 08/03/2019 to be due on 08/08/2019, today, and one day after the registration of Hussein's resignation Ayyash of AC Realty's board of directors (yesterday (8/2019) and give up all of his actions in favor of Naguib Karam. & # 39; & # 39;
She said the facts required the immediate action of the regulators to open a serious investigation in order to uncover all the circumstances and hold each of the leaders of the "Touch", represented by Badr Al-Kharafi, suspected of exploiting his position for a private benefit, as well as board members, owners of both mobile companies and current and former communications ministers.
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