Over 104 billion old Syrian pounds, equivalent to US$13.7 million, were discovered in corruption cases in the Syrian financial year 2022, of which seven billion were recovered.
Claim ID
CH2-005
Exact or summary claim
Over 104 billion old Syrian pounds, equivalent to US$13.7 million, were discovered in corruption cases in the Syrian financial year 2022, of which seven billion were recovered.
Destination
02-numbers-that-fail
Status
QUALIFIED
Source
SRC-036 Syria TV via The Syrian Observer, 14 April 2023, reporting the Central Organization for Financial Control
Source type
Opposition website report in translation
Published
2023-04-14
Accessed
2026-08-10
Measure and scope
Corruption discovered in Syrian government departments and ministries, financial year 2022, old Syrian pounds. The article's three dollar conversions imply between about 7,400 and 7,600 pounds to the dollar, which is AUTHOR ARITHMETIC on its figures and not a claim about any official rate.
Known conflict
The article gives four totals on different bases and reconciles none: 104 billion discovered, 88 billion attributed to a differently named body, over 9.4 billion in the economic public sector and over six billion required to be recovered in the administrative sector. It names three institutions and relates none of them. AMENDED 2 September 2026 on SRC-259 opened: the Arabic original names one body, the Central Organization for Financial Control, and thereafter uses four short forms of that name, so the three institutions of the English are one under translation and the 88 billion is the same body's total; it remains a separate total on an undefined basis, unreconciled with the 104.
Downstream
Chapter 2 section 4; the numeral that matches the 2010 figure and shares nothing else with it
Action
None outstanding. The chain is stated as three hops with the translator's non-verification disclaimer quoted, the date is stated as the translating outlet's, and the 400 per cent is described as naming a subject and defining no measure.