Lebanese Banks

Investigations

Lebanon: Is Cedrus Bank the Missing Link in Lebanon’s Banking Scandal?

Rami El-Amin
Prosecutor Ghada Aoun is doing a great job going after the heads of “the Lebanon cartel,” including BDL Governor Riad Salameh. Yet, she has never filed charges against President Michel Aoun and his clique, while there is a close link between them and Salameh: Cedrus Bank.
Investigations

Suing Lebanon’s Banks: The Only Tool Left in the Box

Ali Nour
Despite the political dimensions, it must be said that Judge Ghada Aouns’ investigations have revealed numerous violations, as billions of depositors’ money were smuggled out of the country at the start of the banking crisis.
Investigations

Bank Audi Takes Revenge on Lebanese Depositors

Jana Barakat
Audi Bank has started a process of getting rid of depositors with a British nationality after one of them, Farouj Manoukian, succeeded in winning a lawsuit in a British court to recover his money.
Investigations

Foreign Legal Pressure Can Corner Lebanon’s Banking Elites

David Wood
With a coordinated legal and political campaign, Lebanon’s scorned depositors can finally coerce banking elites into taking responsibility for their actions.
Investigations

Hezbollah’s “Bank:” US Sanctions, Gold, and Black Market Rate

Hala Nasreddine
Al-Qard al-Hassan. According to Hezbollah, it’s a charity. According to the US Treasury, it’s a bank supporting terrorism.
Investigations

Lebanon: Hezbollah Represents an very Advanced Model of Internationalization

Rabih Fakhry – Thaer Gandour – Bashar Al Halabi
With its call for “internationalization,” the Maronite patriarchate has played a card as old as Lebanon itself, to save both itself and the country, while placing Hezbollah in a position of direct rivalry with the largest Christian sect in the region.
Investigations

Lebanon: The Hacking of Hezbollah’s Al-Qard Al-Hasan and US Sanctions

Sana Seblani
On December 29, 2020, a group of hackers known as Spiderz hacked “Hezbollah’s bank.” What are the consequences for the “bank,” its clients and Lebanon’s financial sector?
Investigations

Lebanon: Will The Banks Recapitalization Effort Recover Frozen Deposits?

Ali Nour
The ballooning banking crisis is set to become even more complicated this year, with the recapitalization requirements for banks unlikely to bring any avail to Lebanese depositors.
Opinion

Lebanon’s Corona: The Virus is the President’s Last Maze

Hazem El Amin
It is the Corona stage of the Lebanese collapse. Corona’s service in the context of this collapse is in full swing, and in fact this epidemic has included us under other afflicted societies, after we’d been alone on a decline.

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