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Lebanon
How Bank Audi enabled Mikati and Salamé clans to make secret deals

By Clément Fayol
Reading time 5 minutes

Former Lebanese PM Najib Mikati and Banque du Liban's former governor Riad Salamé.
Former Lebanese PM Najib Mikati and Banque du Liban's former governor Riad Salamé. © J. Saidi/Reuters//L. Marin/Central Bank/AFP//Montage : Indigo Publications 2025

Najib Mikati is in Monaco, Riad Salamé is in prison. The first left his seat as prime minister of Lebanon in January. The second had been governor of Lebanon's central bank from 1992 to 2023. As Intelligence Online has discovered, the two men are keeping in contact through one of Lebanon's main banks.

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