A report by the “Financial Control Center Organization” revealed that there were cases of financial corruption in the Syrian regime government’s institutions last year amounting to approximately 105 billion Syrian pounds. billion in 2020
The discovered sums that had to be recovered in foreign currency were more than $1.6 million, in addition to about 250,000 euros and 10,000 Chinese yuan, showing that seven billion pounds and about 21 thousand dollars were recovered from the total cases. state newspaper Tishreen.
In the report, which stated that the cases completed by the surveillance inspectors were distributed to 20 ministries, the Ministry of Local Government and Environment, headed by Hüseyin Makhlouf, took the largest share with 23 investigations revealing more than 384 million of funds to be recovered. Sterling was followed by the Ministry of Internal Trade with 21 cases revealing financial corruption, cases exceeding 42 billion liras and the Ministry of Petroleum with eight cases exceeding 32 billion liras.
