News Lebanon Financial: Lebanon gets Interpol notice following central bank chief's failure to appear
Lebanon has received an Interpol notice after the embattled governor of its central bank, Riad Salameh, failed to appear for questioning in one of several corruption investigations.
News Lebanon Financial: France summons brother, assistant of Lebanon central bank boss in fraud probe
BEIRUT/PARIS (Reuters) - France's judiciary has summoned the brother of and an assistant to Lebanon's central bank governor, two sources close to the matter told Reuters on Monday, as it continues its probe into alleged embezzlement and money-laundering by the bank chief. Central bank chief Riad Salameh, his brother Raja Salameh, and his assistant Marianne Hoayek are being investigated in Lebanon
News Lebanon Financial: Amin Salam: ‘Difficult to prove’ Lebanon is not a failed state
The Lebanese economy minister discusses the country’s financial meltdown. Read more summary Lebanon’s state of collapse has become the country’s new normal. Inflation is soaring, and the Lebanese lira ...
News Lebanon Financial: Ukraine war could bring loss of aid, worsen food scarcity in Lebanon
The Russian war in Ukraine has brought fears that food will become more scarce and life-saving humanitarian assistance could disappear from cash-strapped Lebanon, whose population is sinking deeper into poverty.
News Lebanon Financial: Lebanon asks to be exempt from Algeria's sugar export ban
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati told the Algerian foreign minister in a meeting on Sunday that he hoped Algiers would consider exempting Lebanon from an Algerian sugar export ban.
News Lebanon Financial: Meat off the menu in crisis-hit Lebanon as poverty bites
Lebanon is grappling with financial crisis that the World Bank says is of a scale usually associated with full-scale wars.
News Lebanon Financial: Lebanon's Mikati expresses hope of IMF accord in weeks
A delegation from the International Monetary Fund will start talks in Lebanon on March 29, Prime Minister Najib Mikati said on Saturday, expressing hope of a deal in the coming weeks.
News Lebanon Financial: Mixed fortunes for startups during the financial crisis in Lebanon
Some fledgling businesses were unable to weather the storm but others found a lifeline by shifting operations to other countries and are determined to survive ...
