Lebanon Bank Says Crisis Made Sheikh's $24M Transfer Illegal

By Eddie Beaver ( August 19, 2026, 4:08 PM BST) -- A Lebanon-based bank has denied wrongly refusing to transfer more than $24 million to a Saudi sheikh's Swiss account, arguing that Lebanon's banking crisis made performing the transfer impossible and that complying with the request would now constitute a criminal offense....

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