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Beirut: Lebanon’s financial prosecutor on Thursday ordered sweeping investigations into suspected corruption and waste of public funds by senior officials, the state National News Agency reported.
The move comes as a nationwide protest movement over poor services, economic woes and official corruption enters its fourth week with demonstrators hoping to expel an elite they say has ruled the country like a cartel for decades.
Financial prosecutor Ali Ibrahim has launched probes into customs authority chief Badri al-Daher over suspected “waste of public funds”, NNA reported. It said he had ordered an inquiry into “all the ministers of successive governments since 1990”.
Protesters have been demanding an overhaul of the political elite, which has hardly changed since the end of the country’s devastating 1975-1990 civil war. (AFP)
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