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Investigations
‘They’ Have Names: Who’s Behind Lebanon’s Banks & State
An editorial investigation into how the vested financial interests of Lebanese bankers and politicians are one and the same.
Shadow Trade: Smuggling’s Winners, Losers & Enduring Dynamics
Why illegal cross-border commerce is so hard to stop.
The Great Sell-Off: How Lebanon’s banking sector sold off the country’s financial future to foreign interests
An investigation by Badil reveals previously unknown details of Lebanon’s Eurobond default and how the banking sector manipulated it to facilitate billions of dollars in foreign transfers.
Business As Usual: Long-standing corruption threatens Beirut’s port reconstruction
The ten-year contract to operate the Beirut Port’s container terminal looks to be just the beginning of collective erasure and return to the status quo.
Fuelling Addiction: How Importers And Politicians Keep Lebanon Hooked On Oil
Eliminating national oil dependence will clear out conflicts of interest.
Driving Disaster: Lebanon’s Shadow Financial Plan
How a clandestine plan is forcing the Lebanese people to pay for a banking crisis created by elites.
Maze of Abuse: Lebanon’s Cynical Violation of Blue Collar Migrants
How and why Lebanon’s non-domestic migrant workers are trapped in a system of labour exploitation.
Mountain to Mortar: Lebanon’s Concrete Conflicts of Interests
Holding those in power to account will be no simple task, given Lebanon’s notorious culture of impunity in the construction sector.
Cleaning Up: The Shady Industries That Exploit Lebanon’s Kafala Workers
This special report investigates the economic interests served by Lebanese recruitment of foreign domestic workers, thousands of whom are hired every year.
Extend and Pretend: Lebanon’s Financial House of Cards
How Lebanon’s politicians and banks constructed a regulated ponzi scheme that ran the country’s economy into the ground.