By Maya Gebeily
The French judiciary has transferred the seized assets of Lebanon’s central bank governor Riad Salameh, and his associates, to the Lebanese state, the media office of Lebanon’s caretaker justice minister Henry Khoury said on Tuesday.
Salameh, 72, who has been in post for three decades, is the subject of investigations and arrest warrants in France and Germany over allegations of corruption and money laundering.
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