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☆ France’s three-decade treasure hunt for golden owl has finally ended
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-04 | by ( Story Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The hunt, “On the Trail of the Golden Owl,” was based on a book of riddles published in 1993. “We confirm that the Golden Owl countermark was unearthed last night,” the message read, unleashing a wave of sad and crying emojis. Its value is currently estimated at €150,000 euros (about $165,000), fans of the treasure hunt have said online and at recorded events. On Discord, members of the hunt channel were quick to react to the news that the replica owl may have been found, with thousands of messages pouring in. On the official website, Becker reminds “owlers” not to dig holes on either public or private property without authorization.

Persons: “, ”, Régis Hauser, Michel Becker, Becker, Hauser, Max Valentin, “ I’m, “ owlers, Kit Williams Organizations: Paris AP, YouTube, Monde, Associated Press, France Inter Locations: France, ”, French

☆ France’s Marine Le Pen and her party go on trial accused of embezzling EU funds
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-30 | by ( Story Associated Press | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Le Pen, whose party has softened its anti-EU stance in recent years, denies wrongdoing and claims the case is politically driven. Le Pen was runner-up to Macron in the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections. This figure corresponds to the 3.7 million euros allegedly defrauded through the scheme, minus the 1 million euros already paid back. At the time, the party was also indebted to a Russian bank for 9.4 million euros, a loan taken out in 2014 for 6 million euros. That was decided by Marine Le Pen and others.

Persons: Marine Le Pen, Le Pen, ”, Le Pen’s, Emmanuel Macron, Pen, Le, Patrick Maisonneuve, Martin Schulz, Schulz, Alexandre Varault, Alain Jocard, Pen’s, Thierry Légier, Jean, Marie, Légier, Marie Le Pen, “ Organizations: Paris AP, National Rally, centrists, French National Assembly, National, Associated Press, Getty, National Front, Socialists Locations: Paris, France, AFP, Russian

From early heats to medal-worthy moments, we've outlined all of your Olympic watch options below. And don't forget to bookmark our Olympic streaming guide for daily updates on must-see 2024 Paris coverage. How to watch Olympic track and field in the USEvery Olympic track and field event will live stream on Peacock in the US. Check price at FuboHow to watch Olympic track and field in the UKUK viewers can explore track and field events through a couple of different options, including free streams on BBC iPlayer. How to watch Olympic track and field in AustraliaIn Australia, most track and field events (and Olympic coverage) will be available to live stream for free through 9Now.

Persons: you've, we've, USA's Noah Lyles, Sha'Carri Richardson, Richardson, Lyles, Peacock, Stan Sport, ExpressVPN Organizations: Business, Olympics, US, NBC, Peacock, BBC, Eurosport Locations: Paris, USA, Australia, 9Now

☆ Meet Manu Solidaire, the TikTok star cooking and delivering meals to people living on the streets of Paris
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-26 | by ( Gabriel Kinder | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

Yet the cooking livestreams that he broadcasts from his tiny Paris apartment have attracted a huge audience on TikTok. The 33-year-old spends hours preparing dozens of meals before hopping on his bike and distributing the food to people living on the streets of Paris. Manu Solidaire — CNNWhen Solidaire first began delivering his meals in 2022, he said that he wore a GoPro camera on his bike helmet for his own security. “It’s good for me and good for them.”Solidaire found a new mission and started up his TikTok livestreams hoping to share recipes and sharpen his cooking skills. Solidaire has his camera mounted on his helmet when he distributes meals around Paris.

Persons: CNN — Manu Solidaire, that’s, Solidaire, ”, “, Manu Solidaire —, It’s, L’award d’honneur, ‘, ’ ”, ” Solidaire, ’ Manu Organizations: CNN, Manu Solidaire — CNN, Olympic Games, Solidaire Locations: Paris

☆ Why this luxury Paris apartment is a bargain
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-29 | by ( Henry Zeris | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Karl Lagerfeld’s Paris apartment sells for $10.8 million
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Jack Guy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —A Paris apartment owned by the late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has sold for €10 million ($10.8 million). The apartment is across the Seine from the Louvre. Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty ImagesLocated on Quai Voltaire in the city’s 7th arrondissement, the three-room, 260-square-meter (2,800-square-foot), third-floor apartment sold for nearly double its list price of €5.3 million ($5.7 million). Although it is housed in a building dating from the 17th century, the apartment stands out for its ultra-modern design. Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty ImagesLagerfeld’s tastes changed from property to property, according to fashion writer Patrick Mauriès, who wrote the introduction to the book.

Persons: Karl Lagerfeld, Alain Jocard, Quai Voltaire, Chanel, Lagerfeld, Patrick Mauriès, ”, “ Organizations: CNN, Groupe Althémis, Getty Locations: Paris, Seine, AFP, Quai, Europe, Monte Carlo, Rome, Hamburg

☆ Guy Wildenstein, Art Family Patriarch, Found Guilty in Tax Trial
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Aurelien Breeden | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Guy Wildenstein, the international art dealer, was found guilty in France on Tuesday of massive tax fraud, the latest twist after years of legal entanglements that have unraveled the secrecy that once surrounded his powerful family dynasty. Mr. Wildenstein, 78, the Franco-American patriarch of the family and president of Wildenstein & Co. in New York, was sentenced by the Paris Appeals Court to a four-year prison sentence, with half of it suspended, and the other half to be served under house arrest with an electronic bracelet. The court also sentenced him to pay a one million euro fine, or about $1.08 million. Prosecutors had said that he was trying to dodge hundreds of millions of euros in inheritance taxes. At the trial, which was held in the fall, they had requested a slightly more lenient prison sentence for Mr. Wildenstein, but they had also requested a much larger €250 million fine, or about $270 million.

Persons: Guy Wildenstein, Wildenstein, Daniel, Alec Organizations: Franco, Wildenstein, Paris Appeals, Prosecutors Locations: France, New York, Paris

☆ Sarkozy’s Prison Sentence Halved to 6 Months
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Roger Cohen | More About Roger Cohen | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Paris appeals court upheld on Wednesday the 2021 conviction of former President Nicolas Sarkozy for illegal financing an election campaign but cut his sentence from one year to six months with a further six months suspended. Mr. Sarkozy’s lawyer, Vincent Desry, immediately said that Mr. Sarkozy would appeal to France’s highest court. Nicolas Sarkozy is fully innocent,” he said. “He has taken note of this decision and decided to appeal to the Court of Cassation.”The appeal could take years to be resolved, ensuring that Mr. Sarkozy remains free for the foreseeable future. The former president, known for his irrepressible energy and blunt style, hurried out of court and did not take questions.

Persons: Nicolas Sarkozy, Sarkozy’s, Vincent Desry, Mr, Sarkozy, “ Mr, ”, “ Organizations: Cassation Locations: Paris, France

A UBS logo is seen next to Credit Suisse at the Bahnhofstrasse before a news conference of Swiss bank UBS in Zurich Switzerland, August 30, 2023. The court, which also upheld the guilty verdict against the bank, said a new trial would need to take place at the Paris appeals court to determine a new fine, if any. UBS's shares, which were already up on the day, spiked as much as 3% more after news broke that the 1.8 billion-euro fine was struck down. The decision by the Cour de Cassation, France's highest judicial court, means the guilty verdict on UBS is final. France's top court reviewed whether the Paris appeals court ruling had complied with the law, not the facts that underpinned its decision.

Persons: Denis Balibouse, UBS's, " Keefe, Woods, Tassilo Hummel, Mathieu Rosemain, Stefania Spezzati, Silvia Aloisi, Mark Potter Organizations: UBS, Credit Suisse, Swiss, REUTERS, of, Cassation, Thomson Locations: Zurich Switzerland, Paris, PARIS, Cour, Swiss, France, United States, Mozambique

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Finishing her class at The Julliard School of the arts in New York, Greek opera great Maria Callas gave her students a final word of advice. The City of Athens inaugurated the Maria Callas Museum in the center of the Greek capital Wednesday, marking a century since the birth to Greek parents of the legendary soprano in New York. They might know much about Maria Callas,” museum supervisor Erato Koutsoudaki told The Associated Press. “This is the first museum dedicated to Maria Callas that … combines technology with lived experience,” the mayor said. “We welcome this museum with great joy and deep respect for the great diva."

Persons: Maria Callas, Maria, Callas, Manolo Blahnik, ”, Erato Koutsoudaki, Maria Kalogeropoulos, Maria ”, Angelina Jolie, Kostas Bakoyannis, …, “ Organizations: Julliard School, Maria Callas Museum, Julliard, Associated Press, Athens Locations: ATHENS, Greece, New York, Kyrgyzstan, Congo, City, Athens, Paris

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The International Olympic Committee dismissed on Friday claims by Russian President Vladimir Putin of “ethnic discrimination” against athletes who are excluded from international sport. The IOC has advised sports bodies this year to vet Russian athletes for returning to compete as neutral individuals without a national identity ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics while continuing to exclude teams. “We firmly reject the accusations being made that these measures are an ‘ethnic discrimination,'” the IOC said in a statement one day after Putin’s speech. The IOC said Friday the “strict conditions” it has defined for evaluating “individual neutral athletes with a Russian or Belarusian passport” comply with the charter. ___AP coverage of the Paris Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/2024-paris-olympic-games

Persons: Vladimir Putin, Putin, ”, “, Thomas Bach Organizations: Olympic, IOC, Beijing Winter, United Nations, Paris, Games, Russian NOC Locations: LAUSANNE, Switzerland, Russian, Belarusian, Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Paris, paris

☆ Opinion: The people Olympic host cities don’t want you to see
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Opinion David Goldblatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

A Japanese policeman checks the signs to be used during the opening parade at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, 1964. Police officers stand guard at the rowing and kayak competitions venue at Lake Lanier near Gainesville, Georgia, ahead of the 1996 Olympic Games. Helsinki, which built the first permanent Olympic Village in 1952, created a successful and architecturally distinguished neighbourhood of social housing. Barcelona’s 1992 Olympic Village became the epicentre of a process of beachside gentrification and soaring house prices. Until that changes, we can expect the staging of future Olympic Games to look the same.

Persons: David Goldblatt, Read, David Goldblatt David Goldblatt, Douglas Miller, Charles Platiau, dockets, Buda Mendes, Barcelona’s, Urman Lionel, Denis Organizations: CNN, Olympic, Hulton, Getty, LAPD, Atlanta, Police, Housing Rights, Pan American Games, Rio de, City Council, Melbourne Olympic Games, Asahi Shimbun, City, Games, International Olympic Committee, Olympic Games Locations: British, Paris, Berlin, Roma, Tokyo, Moscow, Los Angeles, Lake Lanier, Gainesville , Georgia, Atlanta, Seoul, Beijing, Rio de Janeiro, Rio, Brazil, Buda, Helsinki, Melbourne, Japan, Australia, Mexico, Athens, Portakabins, London

Bedbugs go where you go, and they have become a nightmare haunting France for weeks. Still, bedbugs have plagued France and other countries for decades. The French public began moving into panic mode about a month ago after reports of bedbugs at a Paris movie theater. “All human population movements are profitable for bedbugs because they go with us, to hotels, in transport," said Berenger. Beaune, the transport minister, is hopeful that steps can be taken to ease the public's fear.

Persons: Elisabeth Borne, Clement Beaune, bedbugs, that's, ”, Jean, Michel Berenger, they’ll, Berenger, Ipsos, It’s, Kevin Le Mestre, Lutte Antinuisible, Lucas Pradalier, Emmanuel Macron’s, Mathilde Panot, “, Alex Turnbull Organizations: PARIS, Olympic Games, Metro, Mediterranee University Hospital, National Agency for Health, Food Safety, Paris Olympics, Associated Press Locations: France, Beaune, Marseille, Paris, New York

☆ One family’s battle to be reunited with art looted by the Nazis
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-02 | by ( Aurore Laborie | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

The lawyer — Laurence Eisenstein, whose firm works to recover artwork looted by the Nazis — said he’d been speaking to a British scholar who’d come across the name René Gimpel in art collectors’ archives. Thousands of objects lost or lootedAs well as being a famous gallerist of his time, René Gimpel was a very well-connected man. Captured sometime between 1916 and 1933, it showed the three Derain paintings in question hanging on the art dealer’s wall. In 2020, seven years after they began their fight, the Gimpel heirs were finally reunited with the three Derain paintings. Dumas said this is often not the case for Jewish families trying to recover their ancestors’ stolen art.

Persons: Claire Gimpel’s, — Laurence Eisenstein, —, he’d, who’d, René, Eisenstein, Claire, Ian Locke, ” Claire, he’s, André Derain, Claude Monet, René Gimpel, Clarisse Vuitton, Louis Vuitton’s, Monet, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Proust, Johannes Vermeer, ”, Monte, Odile Firer, — René, — Locke, Hôtel Doucet, ’, “ I’m, Palais Bourbon —, Locke, “, Crécy, Corinne Hershkovitch, ” Hershkovitch, Sarah Tilotta, Margaux Dumas, Diderot, Derain, Benoît Payan, Payan, Dumas, Marseille's, Benoit Payan, Gimpel, Alain Robert, SIPA, They’re Organizations: France CNN —, CNN, Gestapo, Europe —, Palais Bourbon, Chapelle, Ministry of Culture, French Ministry of Culture, University Paris, Technical University Berlin, Smithsonian Archives, American Art, Mayor, French Ministry of, Belgium ”, ” Locations: Paris, France, British, French, Gimpel, Vichy France, Cannes, French Vichy, Neuengamme, Hamburg, Europe, Spontini, German, Nice, Troyes, Marseille, René’s Paris, Vichy, Belgium

☆ Manet and Degas: A Masterful Pas de Deux at the Met
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-21 | by ( Holland Cotter | More About Holland Cotter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

And if gestures of tribute speak louder than words, Degas made a powerful one. In his increasingly reclusive later years he set about assembling a personal collection of Manet’s work, a sampling of which, in a section called “Degas after Manet,” concludes the show. The painting was so polemically pointed that Manet had to keep it hidden in storage. Degas and Manet, at the start of their careers, first met in the galleries of a grand public museum. In the end, they kept company in a small private one, the shadowy rooms of Degas’s Paris apartment.

Persons: Degas, “ Degas, Manet, ”, Berthe Morisot, Bizet’s, Carmen ”, Maximilian, Austrian archduke, Napoleon III Locations: Austrian, Mexico, London, Paris

☆ I regretted moving to France. The cost of living was too high for my low salary and I experienced xenophobia — so I moved back to the US.
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-03 | by ( Aria Yang | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Colleen Gill moved to Paris, France in 2016 and lived there for four years. She also experienced xenophobic microaggressions while living in France. I also liked the simple pleasures of living in France — I loved buying freshly baked bread and butter every day. The salaries are low and the cost of living is high in FranceMy husband and I lived in central Paris. But the truth is, I didn't love France enough to stay and try to change it.

Persons: Colleen Gill, France —, it's, It's, I've, Aria Yang Organizations: Service Locations: Paris, France, Wall, Silicon, Brooklyn, NY, New York, Italian, American, Florida, New York City, America, NYC

☆ Jeffrey Epstein's New Mexico ranch just sold, 2 years after it was listed for $27.5 million
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-24 | by ( Haley Tenore | Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Jeffrey Epstein's New Mexico property, Zorro Ranch, sold after two years on the market. The ranch was listed for $27.5 million in 2021, then dropped to $18 million last year. Over the past year, some of Epstein's' other properties have sold, including two private islands. An attorney for Epstein's estate, Daniel Weiner, confirmed Tuesday that the ranch had been sold for an undisclosed price, and the proceeds would be used to administer the estate and pay creditors. AdvertisementAdvertisementIn May, two of Epstein's infamous private islands sold for $60 million — less than half of their initial asking price of $125 million.

Persons: Jeffrey Epstein's, Epstein's, Zorro, Jeffrey Epstein, Daniel Weiner, Weiner, Epstein Organizations: Service, Rafael Ranch, Santa Fe New, Virgin Islands, Federal Locations: Mexico, Wall, Silicon, Rafael, Santa, Albuquerque, Virgin, Paris, Manhattan, New Mexico, Santa Fe

☆ Did Gérard Grisey’s Music Predict His Own Death?
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Jeffrey Arlo Brown | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

And in the final two movements, the singer, inhabiting the character of Gilgamesh, describes the myth’s apocalyptic flood and its aftermath. In the fifth and final piece, not a complete song but a short “Lullaby,” a crystalline, pulsing texture is there one second and gone the next. On the early morning of Nov. 10, 1998, Grisey returned from Milan to the Paris apartment he shared with his partner, the mezzo-soprano Mireille Deguy. Deguy returned to their apartment in the evening. Deguy remembers that Grisey removed his watch and asked her to do the same before he collapsed from a brain aneurysm.

Persons: Erinna, Gilgamesh, Grisey, Mireille Deguy, ”, “ You’ll, Deguy Organizations: Paris Conservatory Locations: Milan, Paris

☆ Milan Kundera dies, reclusive literary giant and author of 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Ivana Kottasová | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

“Milan Kundera, a Czech-French author who is among the world’s most translated authors, died on July 11, 2023 in his Paris apartment,” the library, a state-funded research organization, said in a statement. The author of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” Kundera was known for his witty, tragicomic tales, which were often intertwined with deep philosophical debates and satirical portrayals of life under communist oppression. Exile in ParisHe spent the rest of his life in exile in Paris, becoming a French citizen in 1981. While his Czech citizenship was restored in 2019, he was by then a French author whose home was in France. Kundera, having spent more than two decades living in seclusion and declining to do interviews, took the unusual step of speaking up.

Persons: Milan Kundera, “ Milan Kundera, ” Kundera, Kundera, ”, “, Daniel Day, Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Respekt, Vaclav Havel Organizations: CNN, Moravian, Communist Party, Czech, Czech Institute Locations: Czech, Paris, Brno, French, Czechoslovakia, Prague, Soviet, France

[1/3] Writer Milan Kundera is pictured in Prague, former Czechoslovakia, May 6, 1963. CTK Photo/Frantisek Nesvadba via REUTERSPRAGUE, July 12 (Reuters) - Czech-born writer Milan Kundera, author of the novel "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" who lived nearly five decades in Paris after emigrating in disillusionment from his Communist-ruled homeland, has died at the age of 94. French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said Kundera was "a writer and a voice that we will miss". "Milan Kundera's work is at the same time a deep, human, intimate and distant exploration," she said. Fellow Czech writer Karel Hvizdala told Czech Television he saw his friend last November and he was already in poor health.

Persons: Milan Kundera, Frantisek Nesvadba, Kundera, Petr Fiala, Petr Pavel, Pavel, Elisabeth Borne, Milan, Karel Hvizdala, Albert Camus, Daniel Day, Lewis, Juliette Binoche, Philip Kaufman, Timothy Garton Ash, Monde, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, Czechoslovakia's, Jan Lopatka, Robert Muller, Elizabeth Pineau, Tassilo Hummel, Michael Kahn, Jason Hovet, Toby Chopra, Kevin Liffey, Mark Heinrich, Nick Macfie Organizations: CTK, REUTERS, Moravian, Prague Spring, Czech Television, Czechoslovak Communist, New York Times, Oxford University, Paris Mayor, Czechoslovakia's Communist, Thomson Locations: Prague, Czechoslovakia, REUTERS PRAGUE, Czech, Paris, Brno, France, Communist Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak, Europe, Central Europe, French, Western

☆ An Illustrator’s Paris Apartment That Couldn’t Be More Parisian
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Nancy Hass | Ilyes Griyeb | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

PARISIANS ARE OFTEN caricatured as blasé yet, when it comes to their city’s cultural treasures, they can be disarmingly sentimental. New Yorkers may dismiss the Empire State Building as kitsch, but Parisians have an unironic love for the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. There is likewise widespread devotion to the capital’s artisanal past: Many wouldn’t dream, for example, of getting their brass door hardware anywhere but the 19th-century A La Providence on Rue du Faubourg St.-Antoine, or their pencils anywhere but the 136-year-old art supply store Sennelier. Such loyalty to the city’s institutions has a relatively young champion these days: the 38-year-old illustrator Marin Montagut. Raised in Toulouse by antiques dealer parents, he was enamored as a child with images of Paris’s Belle Époque and dreamed of moving to the capital to make art; at 19, he arrived with a single suitcase, a set of watercolors and a few sable brushes.

☆ Tiny Love Stories: ‘If Our Lives Were Novels’
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-25 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Echo ChamberWe are an echo chamber of the best variety, repeating niche platitudes back and forth until we tire of affirmation. There is so much solace to be found in the female spirit, in listening to Fiona Apple and smoking out the window of my Paris apartment. My friend doesn’t need to excuse her mistakes, nor I mine; we accept each other’s missteps and celebrate our imperfections. We visit the Louvre and have the same conversations we had in the pallid light of our Philadelphia apartment. I think if our lives were novels, we’d pick the same epigraph.

☆ Jeffrey Epstein said he stopped hanging out with Trump 'when he realized Trump was a crook,' according to his brother
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Jeffrey Epstein hinted at his fallout with Donald Trump in an unaired interview, according to his brother. "He stopped hanging out with Trump when he realized Trump was a crook," Mark Epstein told Insider. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were friends for years, and the nature of their fallout remains hazy. "And in that interview, Jeffrey said he stopped hanging out with Trump when he realized Trump was a crook." Jeffrey Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on sex-trafficking charges and died in jail several weeks later while awaiting trial.

☆ Lebanon judge sets March 15 hearing for central bank chief in graft probe
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

BEIRUT, March 6 (Reuters) - A Lebanese investigative judge has scheduled a March 15 hearing for Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh as part of a cross-border corruption probe into Salameh and close associates, a judicial source said. Judge Charbel Abu Samra took over the case late last month after another judge charged Salameh with embezzlement, illicit enrichment and money laundering. The charges against Salameh are the product of an 18-month probe into whether Salameh and his brother, Raja, embezzled more than $300 million from the Central Bank between 2002 and 2015. Salameh, central bank governor since 1993, still enjoys backing from powerful Lebanese leaders. He was charged last year over illicit enrichment in a case related to the purchase and rental of Paris apartments, including some to Lebanon's central bank.

The charges come in the waning months of Salameh's latest term as governor, a position he has held for three decades and for which he was often celebrated - until 2019, when Lebanon's economy began to unravel. In comments to Reuters on Thursday, Salameh said the charges were "not an indictment" and pledged to abide by the judicial procedures. The governor has dismissed accusations of illicit enrichment as part of an effort to scapegoat him for Lebanon's financial collapse. TWO INTERPRETATIONSSalameh was charged last year over illicit enrichment in a case related to the purchase and rental of Paris apartments, including some to Lebanon's central bank. Oueidat referred the case - which included Salameh and a number of unidentified associates - to a Beirut prosecutor to file charges including illicit enrichment, embezzlement, money laundering and tax evasion.

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