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Lebanon, Monaco
Antoun Sehnaoui's Banque Richelieu Monaco caught up in Salamé affair

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Antoun Sehnaoui, Chief Executive of Société Générale de Banque au Liban, in Beirut on 13 September 2011.
Antoun Sehnaoui, Chief Executive of Société Générale de Banque au Liban, in Beirut on 13 September 2011. © Ed Ou/The New York Times-Redux-Rea

Many of the funds embezzled by former Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salamé were deposited at Banque Richelieu Monaco, owned by Lebanese national Antoun Sehnaoui. Even after his accounts at that bank were frozen, he continued to invest through it.

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