Is Lebanon’s new central bank governor ‘another Riad Salameh’?
Lebanon has a new central bank governor. But critics say he’s too close to traditional powers who created the crisis.
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Lebanese lawmaker demands trapped bank savings
A Lebanese member of Parliament has entered a bank branch near Beirut demanding some of her trapped savings to cover medical expenses
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Officials Release Beirut Gunman after Bank Drops Charges
Lebanon’s state prosecutor on Tuesday released a man who took up to 10 people hostage in a bank at gunpoint while demanding funds from his locked savings account. In a case that has drawn nationwide attention, food delivery driver Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein, 42, fired three warning shots from a shotgun…
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Distraught Lebanese depositors fight for their life savings
When a Lebanese bank told Aref Yassin it had closed accounts worth $20 million belonging to the professional syndicate he heads and issued a cheque for the balance that was worth a fifth of its face value, he took the matter to court.
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