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A Lebanon judge on Monday issued an arrest warrant against the country’s disgraced former Central Bank governor, Riad Salameh, after questioning him in an embezzlement case. Investigating Judge Bilal Halawi questioned Salameh on Monday for two and a half hours, resulting in an arrest warrant being issued against him with another hearing scheduled for Thursday where the former central bank chief will be questioned further. Salameh, 75, is accused of amassing a huge fortune during his three decades in the jobm facing charges of embezzlement, money laundering and tax evasion in separate probes in…

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