Q&A with legal expert Paul Morcos on judicial capacity and accountability

They are somewhat remote issues from the perspective of daily survival in the summer of 2020. But the questions of financial accountability and judicial processing of the complex aspects of the corrupted system and adequate prosecution of corruption are pregnant with implications for Lebanon’s systemic networks of fiefdoms, sublime tribal rulers, and previously extra-judicial interest mongers. Moreover, the judicial issues relating to corruption are innumerable. Seeing the different types of corruption questions that have been raised—from the need to prosecute politically shielded tax evasion to illegal enrichment of officials, and private sector graft and bribery, to the urgent need of changing the cultures of petty corruption of minor administrative officials, falsification of property contract values, and citizen’s complicity in corruption by way of dodging financial and civic obligations—Executive wondered who will handle the judicial complexities and help cleaning up all the untold nuances of the nation-encompassing Lebanese corruption mural. Asking