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'''TerrorWiki''' is a reference wiki on [[Hezbollah-linked narcotics finance]] and the illicit-finance networks around it: people, organizations, banks and exchange houses, investigations, laundering methods and sanctions law, drawn from public records and reporting. Start with [[Hezbollah]] or [[Funding of Hezbollah]], or jump straight to [[Special:Random|a random entry]].
'''TerrorWiki''' is a reference wiki on [[Hezbollah-linked narcotics finance]] and the illicit-finance networks around it: people, organizations, banks and exchange houses, investigations, laundering methods and sanctions law, drawn from public records and reporting. Start with [[Hezbollah]] or [[Funding of Hezbollah]], or jump straight to [[Special:Random|a random entry]].
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== From the newest entries ==
Three of our latest articles, picked for you. The selection changes every day.
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== Recommended reading paths ==
Not sure where to start? Each path reads in order, from the big picture to the detail, and mixes established entries with new ones.
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| '''How Hezbollah's money moves''' || [[Funding of Hezbollah]] → [[Hezbollah External Security Organization]] → [[Hezbollah Business Affairs Component]] → [[Abdallah Safieddine]] → [[Adham Tabaja]]
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| '''The Joumaa and Lebanese Canadian Bank case''' || [[Ayman Joumaa]] → [[Lebanese Canadian Bank]] → [[New Line Exchange Trust]] → [[Pedro Claver Mejia Salazar]]
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| '''The Captagon trade''' || [[Captagon]] → [[Captagon trafficking across the Syria–Jordan border]] → [[Drug production and trafficking in the Bekaa Valley]] → [[United States counter-Captagon legislation and strategy]]
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| '''Venezuela''' || [[Tareck El Aissami]] → [[Ghazi Nasr al-Din]] → [[Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios]] → [[Adel El Zabayar]]
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| '''The Tri-Border Area''' || [[Hezbollah finance in the Triple Frontier]] → [[Nader Mohamad Farhat]] → [[Ali Issa Chamas]] → [[First Capital Command]]
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| '''Iran's role''' || [[IRGC Quds Force and Hezbollah support networks]] → [[Muhammad Qasir]] → [[Hezbollah procurement networks and dual-use goods]]
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| '''How investigations start''' || [[Operation Smokescreen]] → [[Operation Phone Flash]] → [[Ali Fayyad]] → [[Drug trafficking and Hezbollah intelligence recruitment in Israel]]
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| '''The U.S. legal toolkit''' || [[Bank Secrecy Act]] → [[Financial Crimes Enforcement Network]] → [[Sanctions evasion under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act]] → [[United States material-support offenses]] → [[Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act]] → [[Civil forfeiture]]
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| '''The theory behind it''' || [[Crime–terror nexus]] → [[Narcoterrorism]] → [[Free trade zones and illicit-finance risks]] → [[Counterfeit goods in Hezbollah-financing research]]
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== New on TerrorWiki ==
The 35 latest entries, grouped by topic.
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'''People'''
* [[Kassim Tajideen]]: Lebanese businessman sanctioned in 2009 who pleaded guilty in 2018 to sanctions-related money laundering
* [[Abdallah Safieddine]]: Hezbollah official named in U.S. sanctions records as its representative to Iran
* [[Adham Tabaja]]: Lebanese businessman sanctioned in 2015, whose Al-Inmaa group appears in investment and money-transfer records
* [[Muhammad Qasir]]: Hezbollah official linked to weapons logistics and Iran–Syria financial transfers
* [[Nazem Said Ahmad]]: diamonds, artwork and alleged sanctions evasion
* [[Tareck El Aissami]]: former Venezuelan executive vice president and minister
* [[Ghazi Nasr al-Din]]: Venezuelan diplomat designated in 2008 as a Hezbollah fundraiser and facilitator
* [[Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios]]: "El Pollo", former Venezuelan military intelligence chief prosecuted in the U.S.
* [[Nader Mohamad Farhat]]: Ciudad del Este exchange businessman and U.S. defendant
* [[Ali Issa Chamas]]: Lebanese-Paraguayan drug-trafficking defendant
* [[Ali Fayyad]]: arms trader at the center of a 2014 undercover weapons case in Prague
* [[Pedro Claver Mejia Salazar]]: Colombian intermediary who laundered money for La Oficina de Envigado
'''Organizations, banks and exchange houses'''
* [[Hezbollah External Security Organization]]: Hezbollah's external operational apparatus
* [[IRGC Quds Force and Hezbollah support networks]]: Iran's foreign-operations branch and Hezbollah
* [[Jammal Trust Bank]]: Lebanese bank sanctioned in 2019
* [[New Line Exchange Trust]]: exchange house named in the 2011 Joumaa action
* [[First Capital Command]]: Brazil's PCC, from São Paulo prison gang to transnational trafficker
* [[Jalisco New Generation Cartel]]: the Mexican cartel known as CJNG
'''Captagon'''
* [[Captagon]]: from prescription medicine to an illicit regional tablet market
* [[Captagon trafficking across the Syria–Jordan border]]
* [[Drug production and trafficking in the Bekaa Valley]]
* [[United States counter-Captagon legislation and strategy]]
'''Investigations and methods'''
* [[Operation Smokescreen]]: cigarette smuggling in North Carolina and support for Hezbollah
* [[Operation Phone Flash]]: FBI cases in Philadelphia on stolen goods and weapons procurement
* [[Drug trafficking and Hezbollah intelligence recruitment in Israel]]
* [[Hezbollah procurement networks and dual-use goods]]
* [[Counterfeit goods in Hezbollah-financing research]]
* [[Free trade zones and illicit-finance risks]]
'''Law and concepts'''
* [[Bank Secrecy Act]]
* [[Financial Crimes Enforcement Network]] (FinCEN)
* [[Sanctions evasion under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act]] (IEEPA)
* [[United States material-support offenses]]
* [[Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act]] (RICO)
* [[Civil forfeiture]]
* [[Crime–terror nexus]]
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== Today's picks ==
== Today's picks ==
Six entries from across the wiki. The selection changes every day.
Six entries from across the whole wiki. The selection changes every day.


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Latest revision as of 18:27, 21 October 2026

TerrorWiki is a reference wiki on Hezbollah-linked narcotics finance and the illicit-finance networks around it: people, organizations, banks and exchange houses, investigations, laundering methods and sanctions law, drawn from public records and reporting. Start with Hezbollah or Funding of Hezbollah, or jump straight to a random entry.

From the newest entries

Three of our latest articles, picked for you. The selection changes every day.

Not sure where to start? Each path reads in order, from the big picture to the detail, and mixes established entries with new ones.

If you want to understand… Read, in this order
How Hezbollah's money moves Funding of Hezbollah → Hezbollah External Security Organization → Hezbollah Business Affairs Component → Abdallah Safieddine → Adham Tabaja
The Joumaa and Lebanese Canadian Bank case Ayman Joumaa → Lebanese Canadian Bank → New Line Exchange Trust → Pedro Claver Mejia Salazar
The Captagon trade Captagon → Captagon trafficking across the Syria–Jordan border → Drug production and trafficking in the Bekaa Valley → United States counter-Captagon legislation and strategy
Venezuela Tareck El Aissami → Ghazi Nasr al-Din → Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios → Adel El Zabayar
The Tri-Border Area Hezbollah finance in the Triple Frontier → Nader Mohamad Farhat → Ali Issa Chamas → First Capital Command
Iran's role IRGC Quds Force and Hezbollah support networks → Muhammad Qasir → Hezbollah procurement networks and dual-use goods
How investigations start Operation Smokescreen → Operation Phone Flash → Ali Fayyad → Drug trafficking and Hezbollah intelligence recruitment in Israel
The U.S. legal toolkit Bank Secrecy Act → Financial Crimes Enforcement Network → Sanctions evasion under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act → United States material-support offenses → Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act → Civil forfeiture
The theory behind it Crime–terror nexus → Narcoterrorism → Free trade zones and illicit-finance risks → Counterfeit goods in Hezbollah-financing research

New on TerrorWiki

The 35 latest entries, grouped by topic.

People

  • Kassim Tajideen: Lebanese businessman sanctioned in 2009 who pleaded guilty in 2018 to sanctions-related money laundering
  • Abdallah Safieddine: Hezbollah official named in U.S. sanctions records as its representative to Iran
  • Adham Tabaja: Lebanese businessman sanctioned in 2015, whose Al-Inmaa group appears in investment and money-transfer records
  • Muhammad Qasir: Hezbollah official linked to weapons logistics and Iran–Syria financial transfers
  • Nazem Said Ahmad: diamonds, artwork and alleged sanctions evasion
  • Tareck El Aissami: former Venezuelan executive vice president and minister
  • Ghazi Nasr al-Din: Venezuelan diplomat designated in 2008 as a Hezbollah fundraiser and facilitator
  • Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios: "El Pollo", former Venezuelan military intelligence chief prosecuted in the U.S.
  • Nader Mohamad Farhat: Ciudad del Este exchange businessman and U.S. defendant
  • Ali Issa Chamas: Lebanese-Paraguayan drug-trafficking defendant
  • Ali Fayyad: arms trader at the center of a 2014 undercover weapons case in Prague
  • Pedro Claver Mejia Salazar: Colombian intermediary who laundered money for La Oficina de Envigado

Organizations, banks and exchange houses

Captagon

Investigations and methods

Law and concepts

Today's picks

Six entries from across the whole wiki. The selection changes every day.

Feeling random? Open any entry, or a random person, network, bank or exchange house, laundering method, investigation or Captagon entry.

Browse all entries

TerrorWiki: Hezbollah-linked narcotics finance and illicit-finance networks
Hezbollah Drug trafficking and Hezbollah intelligence recruitment in Israel · Funding of Hezbollah · Hezbollah · Hezbollah procurement networks and dual-use goods · Hezbollah-linked narcotics finance
People Abbas Hussein Harb · Abdallah Safieddine · Adel El Zabayar · Adham Tabaja · Akram Saied Joumaa · Ali Fayyad · Ali Issa Chamas · Ali Mohamad Saleh · Ali Mohammed Kharroubi · Amer Mohamed Akil Rada · Ayman Joumaa · Chekri Mahmoud Harb · Dino Bouterse · Ghazi Nasr al-Din · Haitham Rmeiti · Hamdi Zaher El Dine · Hassan Ayash · Hassan Muhammad Daqqou · Henry Guberek Grimberg · Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios · Ibrahim Chibli · Iman Kobeissi · Isaac Perez Guberek Ravinovicz · Johanna Patricia Ceballos Bueno · Joseph Asmar · Kassem Chams · Kassim Tajideen · Khaldoun Hamieh · Luis Santiago Calle Quiros · Maria Paloma Rodriguez Badillo · Merhi Ali Abou Merhi · Mohamad Noureddine · Mohammad Ibrahim Bazzi · Muhammad Qasir · Nader Mohamad Farhat · Nazem Said Ahmad · Noah Zaitar · Pedro Claver Mejia Salazar · Raji Falhout · Samer Akil Rada · Samer Kamal al-Assad · Siavosh Henareh · Tareck El Aissami
Organizations and networks Ayman Joumaa network · Barakat network · Chams Money Laundering Organization · Cheaitelly - El Khansa network · Guberek money-laundering network · Guberek network Spanish cell · Hezbollah Business Affairs Component · Hezbollah External Security Organization · IRGC Quds Force and Hezbollah support networks
Banks and exchange houses Al-Qard al-Hasan · Ellissa Exchange Company · Halawi Exchange · Hassan Ayash Exchange Company · Jammal Trust Bank · Kassem Rmeiti & Co. for Exchange · Lebanese Canadian Bank · New Line Exchange Trust
Companies Abou Merhi Group · Abou-Merhi Lines · Caesar's Park Hotel · Ellissa Holding · Trade Point International
Criminal groups Cártel de los Soles in the El Zabayar case · FARC in the El Zabayar case · First Capital Command · Jalisco New Generation Cartel · La Oficina de Envigado · Los Zetas in the Ayman Joumaa case · Sinaloa Cartel in the 2019 Chams designation
Investigations and operations Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team · Operation Cedar · Operation Phone Flash · Operation Smokescreen · Operation Titan · Project Cassandra
Countries and regions Argentina and Triple Frontier financial investigations · Benin in the Joumaa exchange-house records · Colón Free Zone money laundering · Drug production and trafficking in the Bekaa Valley · Hezbollah finance in Brazil · Hezbollah finance in Paraguay · Hezbollah finance in the Triple Frontier · Hezbollah-linked narcotics finance in Colombia · Hezbollah-linked narcotics finance in Latin America · Latin America, West Africa and Lebanon in the Joumaa and LCB cases · South America, Europe and Lebanon in the 2016 DEA investigation · Transnational narcotics finance in Lebanon · Venezuela in the El Zabayar case · West Africa in the Lebanese Canadian Bank case
Money-laundering methods Black Market Peso Exchange · Bulk-cash movement in the Joumaa and LCB cases · Cocaine-proceeds laundering · Counterfeit goods in Hezbollah-financing research · Exchange houses in narcotics finance · Free trade zones and illicit-finance risks · Hawala disbursement in the 2016 European drug-money investigation · Professional money-laundering services · Shell-company accounts in the Guberek network · Trade-based money laundering · U.S. used-car exports to West Africa
Sanctions and law 2013 Section 311 action on Rmeiti and Halawi exchanges · Bank Secrecy Act · Civil forfeiture · Financial Crimes Enforcement Network · Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act · Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act · Narcoterrorism · Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act · Sanctions evasion under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act · Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act · United States counter-Captagon legislation and strategy · United States material-support offenses
Concepts Crime - terror nexus
Captagon trade Captagon · Captagon trafficking across the Syria - Jordan border · Captagon trafficking and Hezbollah · Syrian Fourth Division and Captagon
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