Judge Jean Tannous will question the Governor of the Banque du Liban, Riad Salamé on charges of embezzlement, falsification of documents, illicit enrichment, money laundering and tax evasion based on several investigations open in France, Switzerland and Great Britain.
Other similar complaints have also been filed against Riad Salamé, strongly criticized for the policy pursued for 25 years and at the origin of the current financial collapse. He would thus have set up what some experts, even the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, himself a former banker, a real scheme of Ponzi-type fraud to attract foreign funds with significant remuneration without reinvestment. in the local economy. In addition, unorthodox financial engineering operations were reportedly carried out by the Banque du Liban, leading local banks to benefit from significant profit taking to the detriment of depositors’ money.
