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A billionaire loot, accumulated at the expense of a country, Lebanon, today economically on its knees, plagued in the last year by a pandemic, political crisis and by the gigantic fire that, in August 2020, devastated the port of Beirut. Yet the president of the Lebanese central bank, the 70-year-old Riad Salameh, a past in Merill Lync, in office as central banker in Beirut since ’93 and reluctant to resign, despite the hatred towards him by most of the citizens of the nation of the cedars, allegedly plundered the institute he headed, relieving it of more than 2 billion dollars.
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