"The Magician" Riad Salameh and the plundering of Lebanon
In June 2021, as Lebanon was in the throes of a debilitating financial crisis, the country’s central bank governor touched down at Paris’s Le Bourget airport by private jet, where customs officials found him carrying large amounts of undeclared cash....
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