Published date: Samedi 5 octobre 2019 - 08:26 | Last update: 1 année 6 mois ago "Whatever campaigns are launched against me, and whatever they say, write, or do, I will keep working and not stop." This was the first statement put out by Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri in a tweet following a New York Times article revealing that the billionaire premier splashed some $16m on South African model Candice van der Merwe in 2013. Van der Merwe stood trial in her home country in 2013 over the mysterious money transfer, but the benefactor at the time was identified merely as an "unnamed Arab admirer" whom she met at a Seychelles resort dubbed "a Playboy mansion for Arab princes".