Lebanese governor claims personal audit exonerates him

Judge says court has ordered him to suspend Salameh probe as foreign investigations continue

Central Bank of Lebanon
The Central Bank of Lebanon
Karan Jain (https://bit.ly/3IYY8Dm)

Lebanon’s central bank governor said he submitted an audit of his finances to the country’s prime minister in a bid to rebut allegations against him.

On November 19, the Lebanese cabinet’s official Twitter account said that Riad Salameh had handed in an audit of his finances. Two days earlier, Salameh told a local TV channel that he had asked an audit firm, Semaan, Gholam & Co, to report on his finances.

“I asked a well-known, first-class audit firm to audit operations and investments that

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