How feasible is the recovery of stolen Lebanese assets?

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The Lebanese uprising that burst into the streets across the country on October 17, 2019 was a focal point for long held frustrations over a poor governance system and widely perceived endemic corruption. The trigger for the protests was a series of proposed taxes that the previous Lebanese cabinet had agreed on, as part of its austerity push amid a declared state of economic emergency. Those that took to the streets saw these measures as punching down on a populace already suffering economically, and instead directed their anger toward a political class that had, since the end of the civil war, been presiding over Lebanon’s ever-expanding fiscal deficit and public debt. Among the demands that emerged from the streets over months of protests was a call to retrieve stolen public funds and freeze the assets of Lebanese politicians located abroad. Recovering these assets, however, is not a straightforward process. The