Reuters
The Appellate Public Prosecutor in Mount Lebanon, Judge Ghada Aoun, charged the governor of the Banque du Liban, Riad Salameh, with the crime of job negligence and breach of trust, and referred him to the investigating judge for questioning.
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This comes a week after Salama underwent a hearing with the Prosecutor General of Cassation, Ghassan Oweidat, at the request of Switzerland, as part of the investigation into money laundering and extortion.
Salameh said in a statement at the time that he had “provided Judge Oweidat with all the answers to the questions he had taken on the original as well as on behalf of the Swiss Public Prosecutor, and assured him that no transfers were made from the accounts of Banque du Liban or from his budget.”
And he declared that he “reserved for himself the right to legal prosecution against all those who insist on spreading malicious rumors and insults that affect him personally.”
The Swiss Prosecutor’s Office announced earlier that it had requested legal aid from Lebanon as part of the investigation into money laundering and possible extortion linked to the central bank.
Source: National Information Agency
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