BEIRUT: Raja Salameh, the brother of Lebanon’s central bank governor, on Thursday appeared before a team of European judges investigating financial crimes and international money laundering involving more than $330 million. The judicial delegation, headed by French judge Aude Buresi, heard Salameh’s testimony at the Beirut Palace of Justice as part of investigations by
Judge Tarek Bitar resumed a long-frozen investigation into the 2020 disaster, which killed over 200 but was immediately blocked by Lebanese judicial authorities and detained for “usurping power."