El Khalil

El Khalil worked for the Central Bank from 1982 until he became finance minister nearly two years ago and was last the executive director of its financial operations department.

During Friday’s session, caretaker Finance Minister Youssef El Khalil was questioned about his work as a close associate of Salameh while working at the Central Bank, before he became a Cabinet minister, officials said.

After questioning El Khalil, the delegation was expected to leave Lebanon.

A new government was named earlier this month and reinstating the forensic audit was practically the first contract signed by Finance Minister Youssef El Khalil.

A former central bank official since 1982, El Khalil was last the executive director of the central bank’s financial operations department.