The Central Bank of Lebanon is to be audited as recriminations fly over the country’s descent into economic crisis.

The government appointed turnaround consultants Alvarez & Marsal to carry out the audit, after a cabinet meeting on July 21.

Prime minister Hassan Diab said the audit of the central bank’s accounts would form a key part of the government’s reform agenda. The central bank, led by long-standing governor Riad Salameh, has been accused of failing to prevent the collapse of the