Security, judicial funding, media regulation and public-sector control failures are testing a country whose reputation is built partly on stable institutions.
The same contradiction keeps appearing: tougher rhetoric on crime and state performance, while courts, media and public institutions warn that their own capacity is under pressure.
The case matters less because money was stolen than because repeated removals appear to have exploited blind spots in surveillance, access and accounting controls.
Cuts affecting the judiciary and investigative police sit uneasily beside the government’s emphasis on organised crime and public security.
A technical charging reform is now raising a larger question: could some free-to-air broadcasters become uneconomic?
Local and country-focused outlets used as starting points for this prototype edition.