U.S. Targets Network Moving Millions to Hizballah
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control imposed sanctions Thursday on 10 individuals tied to a network that moves hundreds of millions of dollars in cash to Hizballah using couriers on commercial airline flights, and re-designated Hizballah itself under updated counterterrorism authority linking the group directly to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force. The network operates by sending couriers on commercial flights between Lebanon, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates and Iran, moving large quantities of cash […]