Head of Lebanon’s central bank arrested

After more than a year of damning revelations of alleged financial crimes, Riad Salameh, the head of Lebanon’s central bank, has been arrested. Alia Ibrahim, the co-founder of the online news site Daraj, speaks to The World’s Host Marco Werman about what transpired.

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