Does Lebanon need a special anti-corruption court?

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In June, Parliament’s Anti-Corruption Subcommittee began discussing the establishment of a special court on financial crimes. Its proposed jurisdiction ranges from counterfeit and forgery of money and documents to bribery and abuse of power by public officials on active and former duty. Such a scope of offenses would fall under what we at the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, a knowledge hub on corruption and anti-corruption policies worldwide, have called a “specialized anti-corruption court.”   Over the last two decades, the number of countries that chose to have a special judicial body, division, or set of judges with a substantial or exclusive focus on corruption-related cases has grown. In a 2015 mapping exercise, U4 found around 20 existing anti-corruption courts and we know of at least five more that have been set up since. More countries, such as Armenia and now Lebanon are debating their establishment.  Different degrees of institutional separation and