The Special Investigation Commission (SIC) against money laundering and terrorism financing issued its annual report detailing its activities in tracing money from illegal activities in Lebanon in 2017. Established by Banque du Liban as an independent legal entity, the SIC's mandate is to investigate suspected money-laundering operations and to monitor compliance with the rules and procedures of Law 318, the anti-money laundering law that was enacted by the Lebanese Parliament in April 2001 and that was replaced by Law 44 in November 2015. 

The report indicated that the SIC received 597 suspected cases in 2017. It received 479 cases, or 80.2% of the total from local sources, and 118 cases, or 19.8%, from abroad. In turn, the SIC referred 250 suspected cases to the judicial authorities, while 83 cases are still pending and the remaining 264 cases did not fall within the framework of Law 44. Further, authorities lifted the banking secrecy on 48 cases, with six of those cases referred from foreign governments and organizations and 42 cases from domestic sources. The remaining 202 cases were related to information requests. Overall, the SIC investigated 514 out of 597 cases or 86.1% of the total in 2017, relative to 84.9% of suspected cases in 2016, 77.5% of cases in 2015, 73.6% of cases in 2014, 84.7% of cases in 2013 and 67.3% of cases in 2012.