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Lebanon's finance minister questioned by European prosecutors

Lebanon's Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh gives an interview with AFP at his office in the capital Beirut on December 20, 2021. © JOSEPH EID/AFP

A European judicial team questioned Lebanon’s caretaker finance minister Youssef El Khalil on Friday in an investigation related to a corruption probe of the country’s Central Bank governor, officials said.

The questioning is part of a probe by a delegation from France, Germany, and Luxembourg, now on its third visit to Lebanon to interrogate suspects and witnesses in the case. Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh is being investigated abroad over several financial crimes and the laundering of some $330 million.

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