“He did not receive any of the money, according to a lawyer who took part in the negotiations.”
Bassam al-Sheikh Hussein had about $200,000 of his own money locked in the bank. He needed it for his father’s hospital bills. The bank offered him $30,000 of it at gunpoint, and he still left with nothing. Lebanese banks froze deposits while the pound lost 90 percent, and the depositors are the ones who end up in handcuffs.