Overview
- The Parquet national financier confirmed to AFP that it has opened an inquiry into assets linked to the former Lebanese prime minister.
- The move follows a complaint filed in April 2024 by Sherpa and the CVPFCL, which was supplemented with new elements in April 2025.
- The complaint targets Najib Mikati, his brother Taha, relatives and associates over assets in France and abroad allegedly routed through multiple structures, including offshore vehicles, citing suspected money laundering, concealment, criminal association and actions in an organized group.
- Mikati’s communications office said it has not been notified, and he has previously stated that his family’s wealth is lawful and transparent.
- Plaintiffs also identify several children of the Mikati brothers as potential recipients of allegedly laundered funds and point to links involving Bank Audi France and a 1994 telecoms contract, with the effort paralleling the separate French probe into former central bank chief Riad Salamé.