The former governor of the BDL, during an interview on LBCI, in July 2023. Screenshot taken from the LBCI website.
The interim first investigative judge of Mount Lebanon, Nicolas Mansour, issued his indictment on Tuesday in the case related to the acquisition and exploitation of real estate in France, one of the cases in which the former governor of the Banque du Liban (BDL), Riad Salameh, is being prosecuted. Judge Mansour indicted him for money laundering and illicit enrichment.Judge Mansour previously issued an arrest warrant for Salameh in this case at the end of Oct. 2024. The case pertains to premises that the BDL had rented on the Champs-Élysées to house an emergency center of the central bank. The lease was signed in 2010 with a real estate management company headed by Salameh's former partner, Anna Kosakova, in exchange for several million euros collected during a few years of renting. For context: New arrest warrant against Riad...
The interim first investigative judge of Mount Lebanon, Nicolas Mansour, issued his indictment on Tuesday in the case related to the acquisition and exploitation of real estate in France, one of the cases in which the former governor of the Banque du Liban (BDL), Riad Salameh, is being prosecuted. Judge Mansour indicted him for money laundering and illicit enrichment.Judge Mansour previously issued an arrest warrant for Salameh in this case at the end of Oct. 2024. The case pertains to premises that the BDL had rented on the Champs-Élysées to house an emergency center of the central bank. The lease was signed in 2010 with a real estate management company headed by Salameh's former partner, Anna Kosakova, in exchange for several million euros collected during a few years of renting. For context: New arrest warrant against Riad...
