Riad Salameh

France on Friday charged a former assistant of Riad Salameh, the governor of Lebanon’s central bank and a subject of judicial probes at home and abroad, with money laundering. In March 2022, France, Germany and Luxembourg seized assets…

A Lebanese judge questioned central bank chief Riad Salameh on Wednesday after Beirut received a second Interpol Red Notice targeting him, this time following an arrest warrant from Munich, a judicial official said. Salameh has been the…

The chief of Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group on Friday called on the country’s central bank governor to resign amid mounting legal troubles. The governor, Riad Salameh, should either step down or be stripped of his responsibilities,…

A Lebanese judge on Wednesday banned the country’s central bank chief Riad Salameh from traveling, days after Beirut received an Interpol red notice following a French arrest warrant. Imad Qabalan, general prosecutor at the Lebanese…

Ten reformist MPs issued a joint statement on Thursday demanding the immediate removal of Riad Salameh from his position as central bank governor. The MPs condemned Salameh’s approach of “financing the policies of successive governments…

Riad Salameh, the governor of Lebanon’s central bank, Banque du Liban, is not expected to appear as scheduled before a European financial investigation at a Paris court on Tuesday. He was summoned by French Judge Aude Buresi two weeks…