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Reporting on sanctions evasion, ship-to-ship transfers, political protection rackets, and the financial plumbing that holds them together.
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law after intensive IMF consultations, but the Central Bank’s explicit reservations and a long history of stalled or withdrawn reforms raise doubts about whether this latest push wil
Riad Salameh has been charged, detained, bailed, and referred to yet another court, and the fact that Lebanon's judiciary keeps moving his case without ever concluding it is not a sign the system is working, but proof of exactly how it was designed to fail.
Lebanon’s smuggling crisis is not simply a border security failure, it is the result of a governance system where corruption weakens enforcement, protects illicit networks, and erodes the state’s ability to apply the law equally.