Kheireddine to return to Lebanon after French 'acquittal'

Al Mawarid Bank chairman and ex-Lebanese minister Marwan Kheireddine will return to Lebanon in the weekend, a media report said.

“The French judiciary took a decision to release him on Tuesday after it turned out during his interrogation that there are no corruption suspicions over his activities,” Lebanon’s privately-run al-Markazia news agency reported.

Earlier this month, Kheireddine was charged in France and slapped with a travel ban without being detained.

Kheireddine was questioned over “his role in covering up for the money laundering crimes of the Salameh brothers and Marianne Hoayek, especially that Raja Salameh had three bank accounts at Al-Mawarid Bank that grew from $15 million in 1993 to $150 million in 2019,” al-Akhbar newspaper reported earlier in April.