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Lebanon removes banking secrecy rules to fight corruption

by Associated Press
| May 28, 2020 8:03 AM

BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s parliament approved on Thursday a law to remove decades-old banking secrecy rules in order to better fight rampant corruption that has pushed the country to the edge of economic collapse.

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