The court is expected to issue a decision in the next few weeks on whether to accept or reject the defendants' request to unfreeze their assets in Europe
An anti-corruption group has submitted a legal complaint in France against Lebanon s central bank governor over foreign investments including property he owns worth millions of euros, Reuters report.
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PARIS, May 3 (Reuters) - Non-profit organisation Sherpa and a group of lawyers have filed a legal complaint to France s financial prosecutor against Lebanese Central Bank Riad Salameh over alleged corruption and money laundering, an official at Sherpa said on Monday.
Sherpa said in a statement the legal complaint, filed on Friday, was over suspicious real estate purchases in France and that the aim was to return the property to the Lebanese people.
The complaint covers millions of euros worth of property assets in France and also targets Salameh s brothers and an associate, said Laura Rousseau, head of the illicit financial flows programme at Sherpa, in comments to Reuters.
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