Lebanon indicts 8 retired military figures over alleged graft ...Saudi Arabia

Author: AFPID: 1606923989511758700Wed, 2020-12-02 15:34 BEIRUT: A Lebanese prosecutor Wednesday indicted eight retired military figures including a former army chief over “illicit enrichment,” a judicial source said, in a first under a new anti-graft law. Popular anger has grown in the past year over alleged corruption among the political elite in Lebanon, where a dire economic crisis has pushed the poverty rate up to more than half the population. Since mass protests erupted in October 2019, the under-fire ruling class has repeatedly pledged to root out graft, and this year the parliament passed a new law to combat illicit enrichment. But critics have expressed little trust in a system

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