Lebanon’s Ministry of Justice has received an Interpol notice issued for central bank Governor Riad Salameh, according to the country’s caretaker interior minister.
Bassam Mawlawi told the Reuters news agency on Friday that he would implement the red notice if the judiciary instructed him to do so.
“Whatever the judiciary says, we will do,” Mawlawi said.
Red notices go out to law enforcement agencies around the world. They seek the location and arrest of fugitives wanted for prosecution or to serve prison sentences.
The notice for Salameh was issued after France put an arrest warrant for him as part of its investigation into whether the governor embezzled hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds, an allegation he denies.
Salameh slammed the French move, calling it a violation of the law, and promised to appeal.