Activists file legal complaint over alleged Lebanon corruption
The Peninsula
Paris: Non-profit organisation Sherpa and a group of lawyers have filed a legal complaint to France's financial prosecutor against Lebanese Central Bank Riad Salameh over alleged corruption and money laundering, an official at Sherpa said on Monday.
Sherpa said in a statement the legal complaint, filed on Friday, was over "suspicious" real estate purchases in France and that the aim was to return the property to the Lebanese people. The complaint covers millions of euros worth of property assets in France and also targets Salameh's brothers and an associate, said Laura Rousseau, head of the illicit financial flows programme at Sherpa, in comments to Reuters.More Related News