Lebanon’s Audit Bureau questions minister over Beirut airport contract scandal

Lebanon’s Audit Bureau questions minister over Beirut airport contract scandal

Lebanon will construct a $122 million terminal at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport to be operated by a leading Irish airport company when it’s completed in four years, officials said Monday.

The contract was questioned by Lebanon’s Audit Bureau on Friday . It sent a memo to caretaker Public Works and Transport Minister Ali Hamiya, asking him for information about a project to construct a new terminal at the Rafik Hariri International Airport, following an uproar in the country over the issue.

In the memo, the Bureau asks Hamiya whether the public procurement law, the public-private partnership law and other laws have been respected. It also asks whether a public tender had been organized and whether structural, environmental and economic studies had been conducted.