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Nizar Saghiyah Reveals Post-Amnesty Corruption
The article focused on detailing the danger of the new general amnesty law approved by the Lebanese Parliament on August 12, 2026, and the subsequent forgery and manipulation of its content. It highlighted how the law's text was amended in an unconstitutional and covert manner to broaden the scope of amnesty to include all corruption offenses in the public sector, except for direct embezzlement of public property. The article explained that these amendments were made behind closed doors in Parliament, aiming to protect regime elites and influential figures, and to whitewash 35 years of corruption, all while passing the law to the society, exploiting the ambiguity and deliberate intent embedded in the wording. It also noted that clear offenses such as money laundering and tax evasion have become vague or have been transferred to other laws, making it easier to evade accountability. The article emphasized that the new law poses enormous risks to society, including covering up corruption in public procurement, bribery, financial deals, environmental crimes, and others—without clear exceptions—and provides wide scope for reducing penalties and decreasing judicial oversight, threatening justice and encouraging impunity. It calls for constitutional and human rights intervention to prevent the enforcement of this law, which harms national interests, and warns against repeating past mistakes that led to the resolution of corruption cases in ways damaging the country's social and financial fabric.
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