Lebanon Central Bank workers strike after judge raids HQ

Riad Salameh was once viewed as a competent overseer of the Lebanese economy, but is now blamed by many for the country's economic collapse [File: Mohamed Azakir/Reuters]

Beirut, Lebanon – Employees at Lebanon’s central bank have begun a three-day strike after a prosecuting judge attempted to arrest the bank’s governor.

Judge Ghada Aoun, who authorised a judicial raid on the Lebanon Central Bank headquarters in Beirut on Tuesday, has tried more than once to arrest Riad Salameh, Lebanon’s longtime central bank governor, and has openly accused the country’s politicians of protecting him from prosecution.