The Lebanese central bank (BDL) Governor Riad Salameh submitted a request to respond to the Appeal Public Prosecutor in Beirut Ziad Abu Haidar, claiming incompetence on the file.
A Beirut court has rejected a request by a judge to recuse himself from filing corruption charges against Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh, a senior judicial source told Reuters, paving the way for the case to move forward. Top prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat last week referred Salameh and a number of unidentified associates to a Beirut court after the conclusion of an 18-month preliminary investigation, asking Beirut judge Ziad Abu Haidar to file charges including illicit enrichment, embezzlement, money laundering and tax evasion.