Hearing date set for Lebanese central bank chief in graft probe

Hearing date set for Lebanese central bank chief in graft probe FMTNews FMTWorld

BEIRUT: A Lebanese investigative judge has scheduled a March 15 hearing for Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh as part of a cross-border corruption probe into Salameh and close associates, a judicial source said.

He informed them that he had not yet fully studied the contents of the file, comprising four boxes, and that it would take time to do so, the judicial source said.The charges against Salameh are the product of an 18-month probe into whether Salameh and his brother, Raja, embezzled more than US$300 million from the central bank between 2002 and 2015.

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