Seven Years Before Beirut Explosion, Lebanese Military Failed to Flag Deadly Cargo

OCCRP documents reveal that Lebanon's navy inspected the MV Rhosus in November 2013 after it was flagged by the UNIFIL Maritime Task Force, but the navy's brief report did not note the vessel's 2,750 tons of high-density ammonium nitrate; this inspection was later omitted from a 2020 Lebanese Armed Forces report prepared after the catastrophic Beirut blast, raising questions about accountability and the handling of dangerous cargo.