Salameh and his French lawyer Pierre-Olivier Sur did not
immediately respond to requests for comment on whether the
governor would attend a hearing in Paris set by French
prosecutors on May 16.
Salameh, who has been at the helm of the central bank for
three decades, is being investigated in Lebanon, in France and
in at least four other European countries over accusations of
stealing hundreds of millions of dollars and laundering some of
the proceeds abroad.
Salameh denies the accusations, saying he is being made a
scapegoat for Lebanon's financial crisis that erupted in 2019.
French prosecutors, who have not formally named Salameh as a
suspect, have summoned him for a hearing in Paris on May 16, Sur
told Reuters last week. The lawyer said it was not clear whether
his client would be able to come to the hearing because his
travels were restricted as part of Lebanese investigations.
Sur told Reuters he may challenge the hearing itself on
procedural grounds.
(Reporting by Alaa Swilam, Timour Azhari and David
Gauthier-Villars; Editing by William Maclean and Mike Harrison)
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CAIRO, April 13 (Reuters) - A travel ban on Lebanon's
central bank governor Riad Salameh was lifted on Thursday,
public prosecutor Ghada Aoun told Reuters, in a move aimed at
paving the way for him to attend a hearing in Paris related to a
cross-border graft probe.
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