Governor of Bank of Lebanon under new investigation

In the midst of Lebanon’s financial crisis, there’s more trouble at the country’s central bank, with the governor of the Bank of Lebanon, Riad Salameh, under investigation for corruption. Now, European investigators are involved. The World’s Marco Werman interviews Alia Ibrahim, co-founder and reporter at Daraj.com who has followed Salameh’s long fraught career.

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