Argentina
Freezes Assets Of Suspected Hezbollah Fundraising Network
By
JTA
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — In a first, Argentina’s
government targeted a Hezbollah fundraising network in the northern Triple
Frontier with Brazil and Paraguay.
The Financial Information Unit of the
Argentine Republic investigated possible criminal actions by Lebanese
citizens living in Argentina that could be involved in money laundering and
financing terrorist acts.
The unit investigated the Barakat Group,
also known as the Barakat Clan, a criminal organization linked to Hezbollah,
which operates in the area known as the “Triple border” made up of Argentina,
Brazil and Paraguay, led by Assad Ahmad Barakat.
As a result, Argentina’s government issued
an administrative order freezing the assets and money of the group’s members,
allowed by an article of the national Criminal Code related to financing
terrorism.
The Triple Frontier between Argentina,
Brazil and Paraguay often is mentioned as a place linked to Hezbollah and the
Barakat group, and has been investigated
over the last two decades as a source of money for Hezbollah and for other
groups’ activities related to terrorism.
This is the first time that one of the
three governments has frozen assets and funds from a Hezbollah-linked
organization based in the Triple Frontier.
The Financial Information Unit identified
at least 14 people linked to the Barakat Clan who registered multiple crossings
to Argentina. Once in Argentina, the members of the clan would make, in a
casino in Iguazú, charges for supposed prizes that together would exceed $10
million, without declaring either the income nor the discharge of funds when
crossing the border.
The “strong hypothesis” of the unit is
that once out of the country the money is transferred to Hezbollah.
Alyssa Fisher is a news writer at the
Forward. Email her at fisher@forward.com,
or follow her on Twitter at @alyssalfisher
Read more: https://forward.com/fast-forward/405646/argentina-freezes-assets-of-suspected-hezbollah-fundraising-network/
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