Lebanon’s former central bank governor Riad Salameh was arrested September 3 after being questioned over alleged embezzlement, a judicial official told AFP. The public prosecutor “arrested Salameh after questioning him for three hours on suspicions of embezzlement from the central bank exceeding $40 million”, the official said, requesting anonymity as they were not authorised to...

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