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BEIRUT (Reuters) - A Lebanese judge ordered on Thursday that Raja Salameh, the brother of the central bank governor, remain under arrest after he was charged last week with complicity in illicit enrichment, a judicial source familiar with the decision said.
BEIRUT: A Lebanese judge on Thursday summoned central governor Riad Salameh to appear for questioning on March 31 after he was charged with illicit enrichment, the Lebanese state news agency (NNA) reported on Thursday. Judge Nicolas Mansour also ordered Salameh’s brother, Raja to remain in custody following his detention a week ago when he was charged with complicity in the
Judge Ghada Aoun has filed a lawsuit with Judge Nicolas Mansour against Internal Security Forces chief Maj. Gen. Imad Othman and Brig. Gen. Hussein Saleh on charges of dereliction of duty, media reports said on Friday.
The move comes after the ISF General Directorate “prevented the Dahiyeh department from aiding Aoun in the subsidized dollar investigations,” LBCI TV reported.
Aoun had recently summoned to interrogation a number of so-called Class A money changers and a central bank employee.
“The Dahiyeh judicial police department will question them in the presence of Judge Aoun at her office at the Justice Palace in Baabda over information related to dollars subsidized by the central bank,” the National News Agency reported at the time.