BEIRUT, Nov 18 (NNN-NNA) – Lebanon’s Central Bank Governor, Riad Salameh, yesterday denied media allegations, that he transferred public funds to a company owned by his brother.
Salameh said in a statement that, “not a single penny” was taken from public funds to pay fees and commissions to his brother’s company, Forry Associates Ltd, a firm whose transactions and investments have been the focus of media reports.
Salameh said, his opponents had disseminated the false information.
He said that the source of his wealth was “clear and documented,” as he had been a successful private banker, at Merrill Lynch for around 20 years, with an annual income of about two million U.S. dollars, before he left that company in 1993.
Salameh recently came under heavy criticism, following the collapse of the Lebanese pound. He was accused of enriching himself and his inner circle through years of corruption.
