Exposing hidden networks
LevantLeaks is an independent OSINT platform tracking sanctions evasion, ship-to-ship transfers, and illicit financial networks across Lebanon, Syria, and the Eastern Mediterranean, built from primary documents, AIS data, and OFAC records.
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Hand-picked cases from the LevantLeaks desk.
Data
LevantLeaks provides data to support investigations, renewed in real time to showcase the risk environment for law enforcement, traders, maritime operators and governments.
Coverage by track
Political Protection & Two-Class System
9Ship-to-Ship Transfers
5Sanctions Evasion
5Financial Networks & Shell Companies
4Maritime Surveillance & Port Activities
0Risk mix over time
OFAC sanctions tracker
SDGT
402LEBANON
15FTO
3GENERAL
2HEAD
2IRAN
2Latest
We compile reports that rely on AIS, OFAC cross-references, customs declarations, bills of lading, and other primary sources.
Lebanon’s latest attempts at banking transparency and restructuring measures have stalled once more, turning what should be a path to recovery into a repetitive performance of promises made and opportunities lost.
This op-ed examines the widening gap between active European investigations and domestic procedural paralysis, revealing how high-level accountability in Lebanon’s biggest financial crime case has effectively moved abroad.
Lebanon’s Council of Ministers has unanimously approved amendments to the 2025 banking resolution law after intensive IMF consultations, but the Central Bank’s explicit reservations and a long history of stalled or withdrawn reforms raise doubts about whether this latest push wil
Hundreds of thousands of tons of Russian oil are being quietly reshuffled at sea near Egypt right now. And if Lebanon's history with shadow fuel imports is any guide, someone politically connected already knows exactly where it's going.
Lebanon arrived at its first direct peace talks with Israel since 1993, representing not a sovereign state but a hollowed-out institution. And the corruption that emptied it is now dictating the terms of its own survival.
Lebanon's investigative journalists are being systematically silenced through lawsuits, displacement, and intimidation at the precise moment their reporting on elite corruption matters most; and the people benefiting from that silence are the ones they were investigating
Coverage
Five tracks of original reporting across the following five sectors: maritime surveillance, opaque financial networks, political protection, sanctions evasion, and ship-to-ship transfers.
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Maritime fuel and cargo transfers conducted in international waters to evade sanctions monitoring.
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How political affiliation shapes who gets prosecuted and who walks free in regional corruption cases.
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Schemes used to circumvent international sanctions through shell entities, false documentation, and third-party intermediaries.
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Cross-border financial flows, offshore structures, and shell companies enabling illicit value movement.
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Port operations, AIS transponder behavior, and surveillance of suspicious maritime movements.
Documents, photos, shipping records, or first-hand reporting go directly to the LevantLeaks editorial desk. We accept anonymous tips, too.
