By PAUL O’DONOGHUE, Senior Correspondent
HSBC ignored repeated internal warning signs over accounts linked to an alleged $330 million embezzlement scheme involving the brother of Lebanon’s former central bank governor, according to details from a French judicial investigation.
The allegations centre on Forry Associates, a British Virgin Islands company controlled by Raja Salameh, brother of former Banque du Liban governor Riad Salameh.
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