OEIL: European investigators came to Lebanon after confirmation that obstruction of investigations into Riad Salameh’s case is internal

OEIL: European investigators came to Lebanon after confirmation that obstruction of investigations into Riad Salameh’s case is internal

NNA - The European Observatory for Integrity in Lebanon (OEIL) on Monday said in a statement that the European probe into the case of “Lebanese Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh and his accomplices’ embezzlement and money laundering” has been launched in cooperation with the Lebanese judiciary at the Palace of Justice in Lebanon. 

The OEIL indicated further that French judge, Aude Buresi, who had been tasked to follow up on the case in France, has joined the European delegation. 

The statement then called on the Lebanese for “cooperation with the European justice in order to attain justice in the crime of money theft from the Lebanese.” 

“Along with the ongoing investigations, suspicious practices have surfaced on the part of the Supreme Judicial Council, which has been resorting to harassment practices against Lebanese judges while carrying out their required duties,” the statement added. 

The OEIL then called on Lebanese magistrates not to cave in to any sort of  intimidation, affirming that the arrival of European investigators to Lebanon came after foreign countries had confirmed that the obstruction of investigations into Riad Salameh’s  file is “internal”.

“Without a functional justice, impunity prevails. The victims of the Beirut Port explosion, the citizens that have been kept captive without