Thursday, July 15, 2021

The Laundromat: Hezbollah's Money-Laundering and Drug-Trafficking Networks in Latin America

by Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi



EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: On January 6, 2021, the Gulf news network Al Arabiya published an explosive revelation. In late 2016, a high-placed Hezbollah operative named Nasser Abbas Bahmad came to what is known as the Tri-Border Area (TBA), where the frontiers of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay meet. His apparent mission: establish a supply line of multi-ton shipments of cocaine from Latin America to overseas markets in order to generate funds for the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.

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