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Judge fines Lebanese bank heist figure, issues travel ban

Sali Hafez, center, who broke into a BLOM Bank branch last month with others activists and forced bank employees to hand over $12,000 and the equivalent of about $1,000 in Lebanese pounds gestures as she leaves the Justice Palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to Hafez who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cover her sister's cancer treatment. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) Sali Hafez, center, who broke into a BLOM Bank branch last month with others activists and forced bank employees to hand over $12,000 and the equivalent of about $1,000 in Lebanese pounds gestures as she leaves the Justice Palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to Hafez who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cover her sister's cancer treatment. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) Sali Hafez, center, who broke into a BLOM Bank branch last month with others activists and forced bank employees to hand over $12,000 and the equivalent of about $1,000 in Lebanese pounds gestures as she leaves the Justice Palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to Hafez who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cover her sister's cancer treatment. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) Sali Hafez, center, who broke into a BLOM Bank branch last month with others activists and forced bank employees to hand over $12,000 and the equivalent of about $1,000 in Lebanese pounds gestures as she leaves the Justice Palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to Hafez who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cover her sister's cancer treatment. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) Sali Hafez, center, who broke into a BLOM Bank branch last month with others activists and forced bank employees to hand over $12,000 and the equivalent of about $1,000 in Lebanese pounds gestures as she leaves the Justice Palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to Hafez who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cover her sister's cancer treatment. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) Sali Hafez, left, who broke into a BLOM Bank branch last month with others activists and forced bank employees to hand over $12,000 and the equivalent of about $1,000 in Lebanese pounds gestures as she leaves the Justice Palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to Hafez who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cover her sister's cancer treatment. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) Sali Hafez, center, who broke into a BLOM Bank branch last month with others activists and forced bank employees to hand over $12,000 and the equivalent of about $1,000 in Lebanese pounds gestures as she leaves the Justice Palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to Hafez who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cover her sister's cancer treatment. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) Sali Hafez, center, who broke into a BLOM Bank branch last month with others activists and forced bank employees to hand over $12,000 and the equivalent of about $1,000 in Lebanese pounds gestures as she leaves the Justice Palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to Hafez who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cover her sister's cancer treatment. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) Sali Hafez, left, who broke into a BLOM Bank branch last month with others activists and forced bank employees to hand over $12,000 and the equivalent of about $1,000 in Lebanese pounds gestures as she leaves the Justice Palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to Hafez who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cover her sister's cancer treatment. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) Sali Hafez, center, who broke into a BLOM Bank branch last month with others activists and forced bank employees to hand over $12,000 and the equivalent of about $1,000 in Lebanese pounds gestures as she leaves the Justice Palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to Hafez who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cover her sister's cancer treatment. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) Sali Hafez, center, who broke into a BLOM Bank branch last month with others activists and forced bank employees to hand over $12,000 and the equivalent of about $1,000 in Lebanese pounds gestures as she leaves the Justice Palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to Hafez who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cover her sister's cancer treatment. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) Sali Hafez, center, who broke into a BLOM Bank branch last month with others activists and forced bank employees to hand over $12,000 and the equivalent of about $1,000 in Lebanese pounds gestures as she leaves the Justice Palace, in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022. A Lebanese judge on Thursday fined and issued a six-month travel ban to Hafez who stormed her bank with a fake pistol and took her trapped savings to cover her sister's cancer treatment. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) A protester throws a molotov cocktail at the Lebanese Central Bank building, background, where the anti-government demonstrators rally against the Lebanese Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh and the deepening financial crisis, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) Beirut legislator Cynthia Zarazir speaks on the phone as she walks inside a Byblos Bank branch near the capital Beirut, demanding some of her trapped savings to cover medical expenses, in Antelias, Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022. Cash-strapped Lebanon in recent weeks has witnessed a surge in depositors storming bank branches to forcefully withdraw their locked savings, as the country's economy continues to spiral. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) Lebanese Sali Hafez, center, accompanied by activists looks at her phone after breaking into a BLOM Bank branch brandishing what she later said was a toy pistol and taking $13,000 from her trapped savings accopunt, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. Lebanon's cash-strapped banks have imposed strict limits on withdrawals of foreign currency since 2019, tying up the savings of millions of people. About three-quarters of the population has slipped into poverty as the tiny Mediterranean country's economy continues to spiral. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)