Lebanese governor says he will step down this year

European magistrates intend to return to investigate allegations against Salameh, reports say

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Riad Salameh

Lebanon’s central bank governor said he will leave the post this year after three decades, as an international team of magistrates investigate financial crime allegations against him.

Riad Salameh told Saudi Arabia-based Asharq News he would leave the Central Bank of Lebanon when his fifth consecutive six-year term ended. “For me, the decision is that at the end of my term, I will turn a page in my life and leave the central bank,” Salameh said on February 10.

Salameh was first appointed to

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