Beirut  — Lebanon's government agreed on Tuesday to hire turnaround specialist Alvarez & Marsal to lead a forensic investigation at the central bank as it grapples with a financial meltdown.

Prime Minister Hassan Diab told the cabinet the investigation would “represent a drastic transformation on the path to uncovering what happened at the financial level in terms of waste and theft”...

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