Posted By
Najib
Mar 18, 2019 07:21
"Beirut port in a storm over corruption": That was the title of an article dated October 2012 when Al Jadeed reported on what it called rampant corruption cases at the Port’s Customs Department, saying it has deprived the treasury of hundreds of millions of U.S. dollars in revenues each year. One way that was proposed to help fight corruption at the port and customs agencies in general was introducing new scanners or at least making…
Posted By
Najib
Mar 15, 2019 11:42
It's no surprise that Lebanon ranks among the most corrupt countries in the world, yet all we've been hearing about ever since the new government was formed and even before that was the imminent need to fight corruption. In the past government, we had a useless minister of state for combating corruption and now they're talking about establishing a National Anti-Corruption commission that will work within a broader anti-corruption framework in the country and will…
Critiques
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