Salama refuses to sign the opening of credits for companies importing gasoline

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The governor of the Bank of Lebanon Riad Salameh refuses to sign the decisions of opening credits for the dollar companies to import gasoline before receiving a detailed list of the Ministry of Energy of these companies.

The banking sources explained that the safety of a request from the Minister of Energy in the government of caretaker, Raymond Ghajar to provide him with information on the quantities of fuel which intends EDL import in the coming months, unnecessary generation of electric power . as for the list of companies importing fuel demand (petrol, diesel and gas), and the quantities that require imported and justify the safety of his requests that it aims to study the market needs and how to harmonize them and what remained dollars from the Central Bank of Lebanon.

They noted banking sources that the dollar crisis will not be limited to fuel, since the import of medicines will not be in a comfortable future, pointing on the other hand to the presence of a large stock of medicines in Lebanon, as it shows that companies imported in the previous larger amounts of market need. The sources pointed out that safety is more lenient with pharmaceutical companies than with companies importing fuels.

Concerned sources have not ruled out that the governor of the Central Bank is in the process of using the dollar crisis to exert political pressure in implementation of US demands. He noted that the safety assured that qualified its only way to resolve the crisis is "political, through internal sorting allow the return of financial flows from abroad, especially from the Gulf states .

It revealed the news that is clear from the words of safety of patients , it is still reluctant to conclude an agreement on a program between Lebanon and the IMF International, knowing that a similar agreement means a ruling scrutiny seriously in Lebanon bank accounts and the restructuring of the banking sector in accordance with the vision of the IMF, not according to the vision and the safety of the owners of Lebanese banks but Salama said he was prepared to qualified its course of what determined by the government next, to determine the point of casualty figures in the financial sector on the basis of which will be negotiated with the IMF. according to sources, safety is counting on the position of the parliament which will not pass the government numbers, just as they managed to blow up the figures provided by the government resigned.