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2021-11-16 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Bassil Asks Why Salameh Not Prosecuted in Lebanon
[An Nahar] Head of the Free Patriotic Movement
Despite its name a Christian party allied with Hizbullah, neither free nor particularly patriotic...
Jebran Bassil asked Monday why Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh
...Governor of Lebanon'scentral bank, Banque du Liban since April 1993. Salameh was appointed Governor by decree, approved by the Council of Ministers for a renewable term of six years. He was reappointed for four consecutive terms; in 1999, 2005, 2011 and 2017. Salameh chairs the Banque du Liban Central Council, the Higher Banking Commission, the AML/CFT Special Investigation Commission and the Capital Markets Authority. Salameh is a member of the board of governors at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and at the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF). Salameh is the longest-serving central bank governor in the world....
hasn’t been prosecuted in Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial...
yet.

"Is it acceptable for Salameh to be prosecuted and interrogated in many European countries but not in Lebanon?" Bassil questioned in a tweet.

"He is the person most involved in serious money laundering crimes," he said.

"Is this how we restore confidence in the Lebanese pound?" Bassil decried.
Posted by Fred 2021-11-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11144 views ]  Top
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