Report: Hizbullah Group Arrested in Laundering Cocaine Money Through Miami Banks
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Three associates of Hizbullah party suspected of laundering cocaine money for the Colombian cartel have been busted after agents said they illegally moved $500,000 into Miami banks through a series of complicated financial transactions stretching from Australia to Europe, the Miami Herald reported.
Mohammed Ahmad Ammar, 31, is the main player who was living in Medellin, Colombia. He was imprisoned last week into a Miami-Dade jail to face state felony money laundering charges.
Two other Hizbullah associates are facing charges in the same case. One of them is in custody in Paris, while the other is still at large, possibly in Lebanon or Nigeria, added the Miami Herald.
The involvement of radical Islamic terrorist groups in Latin American is not new but has increased in recent years, according to federal law enforcement and security experts, said the daily.
According to a congressional report on border security, Latin America has become a money laundering and major fundraising center for Hizbullah.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration announced in February an enforcement activity against people with links to Hizbullah, which came after the U.S. Department of Treasury announced sanctions against Hizbullah's financiers, whom they believe are capable of earning $400 million a year from drug trafficking and money laundering.
Hizbullah-related arrests stemming from Latin American have popped up before in South Florida, said the daily.
In 2008, a Lebanese man named Chekri Harb described by Colombian security officials as having links to Hizbullah was arrested and convicted as part of a large-scale Colombian cocaine ring.
In 2010, three South Florida businessmen were arrested on accusations of of exporting video games and other electronic products to a shopping mall in Paraguay that allegedly served as a front to Hizbullah.
Ammar who is in custody in Miami, was described in court documents as a Hizbullah associate whose job was to launder money for the Colombian cocaine operation known as La Oficina, or The Office, an off-shoot of the notorious Medellin cartel.
He was known to launder money through Holland, Spain, the United Kingdom, Australia and Africa, according to an arrest warrant. Ammar is charged with eight felonies, including money laundering and conspiracy to launder money; court records do not list a defense attorney.
Ghassan Diab, another purported Hizbullah associate based in Nigeria who is still at large, is facing charges. He is related to a “high-ranking member of Hizbullah who has access to numerous international bank account.”
The third accomplice facing charges is Hassan Mohsen Mansour of Hizbullah with dual Lebanese and Canadian citizenship. He is in custody in Paris, and is facing a separate but similar federal money-laundering prosecution in South Florida, said the daily.
13 October 2016, 11:52
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Usa, the warmonger is an expert entity in making unfounded stories or unrelated events with the purpose of overthrowing legal governments or beating non allied leaders, the game here is different; since the resistance represents the people, and the people can't be defeated... Naharnet is helping in the spread of such propaganda.
13 October 2016, 13:10
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he U.S. Department of Treasury announced sanctions against Hizbullah's financiers, whom they believe are capable of earning $400 million a year from drug trafficking and money laundering.
resistance:)
13 October 2016, 13:16
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"whom they believe are capable of earning $400 million" !!!! ha ha ha.
and i believe that they are wrong to believe that.
btw: i believe that you are capable of earning $400 a year posting in this forum.
13 October 2016, 14:41
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Tell us how much you respect US accusations and warmongering pretexts. I bet you were first in line when they claimed Iraq had WMDs
13 October 2016, 15:33
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were you not as a fundamentalist shia cheering for the Americans as they bombed Iraq and ousted the Sunni Saddam Hussein? Weren't the Americans provided false information by the shia iraqis about WMD? Does the name Jalabi ring a bell?
13 October 2016, 18:09
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the zaiters and meqdads drug lords, the abbas ibrahim sponsored opium and hasheesh farms in the bekaa, the captagon factories, and the fneish labs for manufacturing Amphetamine are all US "accusations and warmongering pretexts."
13 October 2016, 14:21
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"We should all be convinced", We!? who are they!!??, you and some hateful sectarian trolls, beside Israel and its allies of course, then WE are convinced that the resistance is doing the right job in curbing the terrorism being zionist or wahabi one.
btw: all this stuff are propaganda, now go to eat your sandwich.
13 October 2016, 14:36
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lol, you can recognize a puppet by how quick he is to invite foreign powers and offer to surrender sovereignty. all it takes is some random statement and unsubstantiated claims.
13 October 2016, 15:22
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obviously not. but dont let good judgement get in the way of your propaganda.
13 October 2016, 19:52
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Again learn English or don't use the language to post. You are just proving my comment correct.
13 October 2016, 18:51
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This comes as no surprise. I'm just impressed Southern and Movaten used their real accounts to whine about Zionism. Never clued into their takia propaganda that there's people other than Wahhabi's or Zionists that think they're complete trash. Anyhow, glad at least the US had the balls to stop a fraction of their illegal activity, too bad Lebanon never had the collective intelligence to do the same, instead, selling out to them.
13 October 2016, 19:08
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KSA was officially accused of 9/11 terror attack, but the American administration will pass a law to prevent KSA to be sued.. because KSA threatened to withdraw all assets from Usa banks, how can you trust such state beside being zionist slave?.... HA is doing a good job in Lebanon and in Syria despite all, now keep whining.
13 October 2016, 19:15
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"KSA was officially accused of 9/11 terror attack"
links, please!
your case is beyond repair.
13 October 2016, 19:27
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You're both trash, and satisfying your fetishes equally. Nice work acting like you're saints.
13 October 2016, 19:28
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Nice try deviating and redirecting my Iranian southern, again like usual, you miss the point completely.
13 October 2016, 19:30
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i'm busy now, google it by your own!
or ask @mohammad_ca, he's the gillie here!
13 October 2016, 19:40
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No, i didn't miss the point, you claim this: "....US had the balls to stop...", what i'm telling you is that Usa doesn't work this way, but according to its own interest and the Israeli one, they invent and falsely accuse, at the same time passes law to prevent KSA to be sued.
13 October 2016, 19:54
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"I'm busy now...but I'm going to comment about something completely irrelevant anyways"
--southern (added language skills though)
13 October 2016, 21:02
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you're the gillie here!! you are proving it each time you strike your keyboard.
13 October 2016, 21:05
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now @terrorist comes to rescue his boyfriend, both are worthless.
btw, being a jew how come you defend a saudi terrorist!
13 October 2016, 21:20
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So someone being Jewish is an insult? Lets throw all that rhetoric aabout beeing moderate and well reasoned out the window again. Judaism and Christianity are highly respected in Islam and just because we have a problem with Zionism does not mean that we attack Judaism. To bring it closer to your backyard just because we have a problem with Sadawite Fors doesn't mean we attack Shiism itself.
13 October 2016, 21:41
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who is insulting judaism!? no one, but most jews are criminal zionists and most Saudis are wahhabi extremists... if he defends Israel, he must explain why... btw: you are not in a condition to give lesson to anyone about whom to respect and whom not.
13 October 2016, 21:54
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anyway, try to learn how to phrase your sentences correctly and the grammar too.
apparently , in the madras, they don't care about the important things.
14 October 2016, 04:59
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the troll posted 17 useless comments on this article alone and then says " I'm busy now". How many would he post if he was not busy?!
13 October 2016, 21:58
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Southern just step away from the keyboard man. Neither your language skills nor your logic are up to par. Using "Jew" as a derogatory term is disrespectful to Judaism. And it is not me who determines who deserves respect and who doesn't. It's my religion Islam. Most Lebanese Shias are Sadawites who believe that their allegiance to the Persian vilayet e faqih suoecedds their allegiance to the country and its laws.
13 October 2016, 22:07
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again, praising Judaism and insulting shi'ism.... a typical wahabi mentality...this is the logic of wahhabism, they sold Palestine to the zionists... back to your Madrasa.
14 October 2016, 14:52
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you never make sense! because logic is reasoning, this is what i'm stating from the beginning, but your wahabi mentality is too narrow to understand and recognize.
14 October 2016, 16:05
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the reasoning is:
you and your boyfriend are both praising the jews while the majority are criminal zionists. besides, you both are extremist wahhabis.. conclusion: wahhabism and zionism share the same principles and are the same.
13 October 2016, 20:15
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نصرالله: ثمة عمل دؤوب لتشويه سمعة حزب الله والمس بمصداقيته خصوصا مصداقيته الاخلاقية فنرى عبر الاعلام كلاما واكاذيب بان الحزب يعمل على توظيف شبكة مخدرات في العالم او تبييض الاموال.
:)))))
14 October 2016, 17:46
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Aren't people getting fed up with "southern" and ".mpwaten.". If the subject was "the penguins in Antarctica", they'd still find a way to blame the Jews for that.
