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From the newest entries

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

Drug production and trafficking in the Bekaa Valley

New Line Exchange Trust

Adham Tabaja

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.

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

• 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

Today's picks

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

• IRGC Quds Force and Hezbollah support networks
• Hezbollah External Security Organization
• Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
• Free trade zones and illicit-finance risks
• Hezbollah-linked narcotics finance
• Ayman Joumaa

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