BEIRUT: Lebanese police raided Saturday the headquarters of the National Social Security Fund in Beirut, seizing potentially incriminating documents linked to an ongoing embezzlement probe, a judicial source said.
During the raid in the Beirut neighborhood of Wata Msaitbeh, police seized documents that could be used as part of an ongoing embezzlement probe by Lebanon’s Financial Prosecution, a judicial source told The Daily Star.
A security source said the operation was conducted by the Internal Security Forces’ Information Branch and that eight people, including staff members, were being questioned.
One of the eight had allegedly plotted with a number of NSSF employees to burn the documents, the source said.
Labor Minister Sejaan Azzi told Al-Jadeed television that this was not the first time that the Information Branch had entered the NSSF building this week.
"They were there four days ago conducting secret investigations," the minister said.
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