The Lebanese corruption cases that never made the front page
Coverage of Lebanon's graft crisis tends to stop at the central bank governor and a handful of party leaders. This site documents the customs officials, contractors, bankers and prosecutors named in the same official records, including sanctions designations, indictments, and court filings, who rarely get their own headline.
How this site works
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Rule
No name without a primary source
An OFAC designation, a filed indictment, or a court record is required. Rumors and opinion columns are not enough.
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Rule
Allegation ≠ conviction
Each profile states whether a person was sanctioned, charged, indicted, or convicted. Those terms have different legal meanings.
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Rule
Sources are linked, not summarized away
Every profile ends with the primary sources used, so you can verify the claim yourself.
Documented, lesser-known cases
Officials and businesspeople named directly in an official sanctions designation, indictment, or court filing, not simply identified as an associate of a better-known figure.
Ghassan Oueidat
Former Attorney General (Public Prosecutor) of Lebanon
As Lebanon's top prosecutor, Oueidat ordered the release of Beirut port blast detainees and directed security services to stop cooperating with the lead investigating judge. The judge treated those actions as obstruction and formally charged him.
Charged with obstruction View profileHani Haj Shehadeh
Senior Lebanese customs official
A senior customs official charged in November 2020 in connection with the Beirut port explosion, over the handling of the ammonium nitrate shipment that had sat in a port warehouse for years before it detonated.
Criminally charged View profileMoussa Hazimeh
Former Director General of Lebanese Customs
The former head of Lebanon's customs administration, charged in November 2020 over the handling of the ammonium nitrate shipment that later destroyed part of Beirut, after internal customs correspondence showed repeated warnings about the cargo went unheeded.
Criminally charged View profileRaymond Rahme
Businessman; co-owner of ZR Energy
One of two brothers sanctioned by the US Treasury in April 2023 for corruption tied to a scheme that supplied Lebanon's state electricity utility with substandard, contaminated fuel while allegedly profiting from the difference.
US Treasury sanctioned View profileTeddy Zina Rahme
Businessman; co-owner of ZR Energy
The second of the two Rahme brothers sanctioned by the US Treasury for the EDL tainted-fuel scheme; unlike his brother, Teddy Rahme and the company ZR Energy DMCC were also criminally indicted on money laundering, bribery and fraud charges.
Sanctioned & indicted View profileDany Khoury
Businessman; waste-management contractor
A businessman sanctioned by the US Treasury in October 2021 over a $142 million state waste-management contract at the Bourj Hammoud landfill; he was later removed from the sanctions list, and this page reflects that change.
Formerly sanctioned (delisted) View profileJihad al-Arab
Businessman
A businessman described in press reporting as close to former prime minister Saad Hariri, sanctioned by the US Treasury in October 2021 for alleged corruption connected to Lebanese state contracts.
US Treasury sanctioned View profileAntoun Sehnaoui
Chairman, Société Générale de Banque au Liban (SGBL)
Chairman of one of Lebanon's largest banks, named in a 2026 French criminal investigation examining whether his bank and its European affiliate enabled illegal capital flight for politically connected clients while ordinary depositors faced strict withdrawal controls.
Under criminal investigation View profileMarwan Kheireddine
Chairman, Bank Al-Mawarid (AM Bank)
A Lebanese bank chairman indicted by French prosecutors on money-laundering allegations in 2023, who then transferred ownership of a roughly $200 million London real-estate portfolio to his brother while the investigation was ongoing.
Indicted View profileRony Kahwach
Licensed surveyor and topographer linked to Baabda Municipality
Rony Kahwach is a Lebanese licensed surveyor and topographer associated with the Katopo-Kahwach office and Baabda Municipality. This entry records allegations concerning influence over permit, approval, and administrative transactions.
Alleged misconduct; monitoring View profileAbdel Kader Alameddine
Mayor of El Mina municipality (Tripoli area), elected 2016
Members of the El Mina municipal council accused the mayor in December 2018 of embezzling public funds, breach of trust, and bribery. They filed the complaint with Lebanon's Financial Public Prosecutor and publicly demanded his resignation, but he remained in office.
Accused by fellow council members View profileFormer mayor of an Aley-district municipality (identified in press reports only by the initials "F.M.")
Former municipal mayor, Aley district
An 85-year-old former mayor of a municipality in the Aley district, detained along with three municipal employees after a Financial Public Prosecution investigation found suspected use of fake and forged invoices to embezzle more than one billion Lebanese pounds from the municipality.
Detained; case unresolved View profile