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A German court has cancelled an arrest warrant for former Lebanese central bank chief Riad Salameh because he can no longer use the post to suppress evidence, prosecutors said on Wednesday. After an appeal by Salameh, a Munich court has “cancelled the arrest warrant because the suspect… no longer holds the office of Governor of the Lebanese central bank”, a spokeswoman for the Munich public prosecutor’s office told AFP. Salameh, who left his post in July last year, is widely viewed as a key element in Lebanon’s dramatic economic crash. Germany, along with France, issued an arrest warrant for S…

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