President Michel Aoun and Caretaker Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, signed the letter Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni sent to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers asking for an extraordinary approval to cover the electricity treasury advance in foreign currency, in order to purchase the needed fuel to operate Lebanon’s electricity ...
France has opened a probe into the personal wealth of Riad Salameh, central bank chief in crisis-hit Lebanon, sources told AFP Sunday. Paris financial prosecutors have opened a preliminary probe into criminal association and money laundering by Salameh, a source close to the investigation and a judicial source said, following ...