Pour des raisons de pratiques Unsatisfactory in terms of preventing money laundering and terrorist financing, Lebanon is likely to be placed on a “gray list” of countries subject to special surveillance.

Inclusion on the grey list is another blow for a country that has been experiencing financial instability since 2019 and has encountered difficulties and has acceded to an agreement with the International Monetary Fund. For example, the Middle East and North Africa section of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), a financial crime watchdog, carried out a preliminary assessment of the Lebanese economy, which the sources said would share with member states this week in Bahrain.

According to one source, based on the preliminary report, the cumulative score of this evaluation places Lebanon “one point above the gray list threshold.”