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Tag Archives: Environment

Organised Theft of Lebanese Beaches’ Sand

18 Wednesday Apr 2012

Posted by Zak in LB Social, Lebanon, Politics

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Beirut, Corruption, Environment, Ghazi Al-Aridi, Lebanese government, lebanon, Lebanon beaches

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This is how organised corruption works in Lebanon: you get the Public Works Ministry to contract out cleaning part of the public beach to a contractor, with the main benefit going to some lucky connected developer owning the nearby sea-resort, while the sponsor of this contract gets paid out from selling the surplus of the beach sand, or the whole sand they extract and transport away.

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