The company faces Choucair .. What is the story of the building "Chiyah"?

"The Lebanese Society for Reconstruction and Development" issued a statement, stressing that "we were surprised in the whole Lebanese people by the decision of the Minister of Communications, Mohamed Choucair – to buy a building for Touch Touch at Downtown Beirut for $ 75 million Between us and the company in the context of renting a building, we are in the Chiyah area since 2012. "

"Touch, which is managed by the Kuwaiti telecommunications company Zain with Mr. Bader Al-Kharafi, has leased the 18,000 square meter building of our company for 10 years at a cost of two and a half million dollars a year, which is significantly lower than the rental value of the building located in downtown Beirut, "she said. The Department of Communications bought this building on the fly and saved millions of dollars on the public purse. "

She added: "Touch did a lot of work in this building, especially in the infrastructure, but it did not succeed, which seriously damaged the building's infrastructure and threatened to We hold the Touch Society, the Ministry of Communications and successive ministers since Nicolas Sahraoui and still today is responsible for what may result from this negligence, and we will ask them for holidays and damages to the authorities concerned.

The Lebanese Society for Reconstruction and Development concluded: "We have put this file in your hands and we are waiting for you to take serious measures to put an end to the long-standing problem We are rights holders and we will never keep the silence about our rights in light of what we see and hear about the waste of public funds. " .