European Investigators Allowed to Attend Riad Salameh Hearing

Reuters reported from private sources that European investigators will be allowed to attend a session where a Lebanese judge will interrogate the Governor of the Central Bank of Lebanon, Riad Salameh, on Wednesday. A judicial source indicated that the judge presiding over the session would not allow foreign investigators to ask Salameh direct questions. Last month, a Lebanese judge charged the Salameh brothers with embezzlement, money laundering, illicit wealth accumulation, fraud, and tax evasion, and set the first hearing for the Central Bank Governor on Wednesday. The European investigators are arriving in Beirut tomorrow, Monday, for their second visit as part of the investigation, and they will be permitted to attend the hearing.