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Last reviewed: February 2025 Lebanon
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Documented cases

Every person listed here was named in their own right in an official sanctions designation, criminal charge, or court filing. See Methodology & Sources for the inclusion rule.

Ghassan Oueidat

Former Attorney General (Public Prosecutor) of Lebanon

Judiciary

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
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Hani Haj Shehadeh

Senior Lebanese customs official

Customs administration

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
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Moussa Hazimeh

Former Director General of Lebanese Customs

Customs administration

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
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Raymond Rahme

Businessman; co-owner of ZR Energy

Fuel / energy contracting

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
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Teddy Zina Rahme

Businessman; co-owner of ZR Energy

Fuel / energy contracting

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
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Dany Khoury

Businessman; waste-management contractor

Public contracting / waste management

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)
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Jihad al-Arab

Businessman

Public contracting

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
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Antoun Sehnaoui

Chairman, Société Générale de Banque au Liban (SGBL)

Banking

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
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Marwan Kheireddine

Chairman, Bank Al-Mawarid (AM Bank)

Banking

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
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Rony Kahwach

Licensed surveyor and topographer linked to Baabda Municipality

Municipal administration

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
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Abdel Kader Alameddine

Mayor of El Mina municipality (Tripoli area), elected 2016

Municipal government

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
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Former mayor of an Aley-district municipality (identified in press reports only by the initials "F.M.")

Former municipal mayor, Aley district

Municipal government

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
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