fredag 16 december 2011

Hizbollah inblandad i narkotikahandel

Här kan man läsa en artikel om hur Hizbollah, som sitter i Libanons regering, är inblandad i narkotikahandel.
Hizbollah verkar bland annat inom kokainhandeln i Sydamerika och verksamheten drar in hundratals miljoner dollar till organisationen, som i USA är klassad som terroristorganisation.
Beirut Bank Seen as a Hub of Hezbollah’s Financing  (New York Times)

"BEIRUT, Lebanon — Last February, the Obama administration accused one of Lebanon’s famously secretive banks of laundering money for an international cocaine ring with ties to the Shiite militant group Hezbollah

Now, in the wake of the bank’s exposure and arranged sale, its ledgers have been opened to reveal deeper secrets: a glimpse at the clandestine methods that Hezbollah — a terrorist organization in American eyes that has evolved into Lebanon’s pre-eminent military and political power — uses to finance its operations. The books offer evidence of an intricate global money-laundering apparatus that, with the bank as its hub, appeared to let Hezbollah move huge sums of money into the legitimate financial system, despite sanctions aimed at cutting off its economic lifeblood..."

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