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IMF knew Lebanese central bank had $4.7 billion shortfall in 2015 – Reuters

Officials said central bank had net negative assets due to claims by commercial lenders, report says

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Karan Jain (https://bit.ly/3IYY8Dm)

The International Monetary Fund found that the Central Bank of Lebanon had a $4.7 billion asset shortfall in 2015, according to a report by Reuters.  

According to the Reuters report, the fund’s staff wrote this in an aide-memoire. But central bank governor Riad Salameh successfully asked IMF officials to keep the fact out of the subsequent public report, Reuters said.  

The Reuters article confirms a report in the Swiss newspaper Le Temps earlier this month. The central bank strongly denied

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