On Monday, Lebanon’s Riad Salameh finally concluded his final six-year term as governor of the Bank of Lebanon after thirty years in office. After months of speculation on whether he would bow ...

A Lebanese judge published a new court decision in the charges against former central bank chief Riad Salameh for embezzlement of public funds, according ...

Lebanon has a new central bank governor. But critics say he’s too close to traditional powers who created the crisis.

Lebanon has appointed asset manager Karim Souaid to the post of central bank governor Thursday as the government tries to reform the economy after months of war and decades of mismanagement and ...

Riad Salameh was arrested on graft charges and accused of undermining Lebanon’s economy, as the Israel-Hezbollah war further destabilizes the country.

BEIRUT – Lebanon charged the country’s former central bank governor with illicit enrichment and issued an arrest warrant against the detained banker, the second in less than two months ...

Riad Salameh, Lebanon's former Central Bank governor who stepped down last year, has become the first high-ranking official to be put behind bars on corruption and embezzlement charges since the ...

The first investigative judge in Beirut, Lebanon, ruled on Monday that the former governor of Lebanon’s central bank (BDL), Riad Salameh, will remain in detention as investigations into corruption ...

BEIRUT - A judge ordered Lebanon's former central bank chief Riad Salameh to remain in detention amid a probe into alleged financial crimes committed during his tenure, including embezzlement of ...

FILE - Riad Salameh, Lebanon's Central Bank governor, attends a news conference, in Beirut, on Nov. 11, 2019. Lebanon charged its embattled former central bank governor Wednesday with the ...

BEIRUT - Riad Salameh, Lebanon's former central bank governor arrested on Tuesday on fraud charges, was feted as a financial wizard before his image was shredded by corruption cases at home and ...

BEIRUT — Once lauded for reviving Lebanon's economy, former central bank chief Riad Salameh, wanted abroad and reviled at home after years of financial meltdown, was arrested on Tuesday by Lebanese ...