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The King of Captagon: The Shipment Stopped, the Network Survived
At Port Klang on 15 March 2021, Malaysian customs officers unsealed three industrial shipping containers…
Salerno, 2020: Eighty-Four Million Pills and the Wrong Name
When Italian customs officers pried open three commercial cargo containers inside the sun-baked port of…
Germany Followed the Cash. Then It Followed the Files.
When German customs investigators unzipped the luggage of two Lebanese travelers during a routine airport…
The Ticket Out of Bogotá
Operation Titan grew from a Miami laundering inquiry into a Colombian–US case against Chekri Mahmoud Harb, a Bogotá broker accused…
The Bank, the Car Lots and the Money That Came Back
A civil forfeiture action in Manhattan traced at least $329 million in transfers from Lebanese exchange houses to American used-car…
The Men Who Looked: Hezbollah’s American Surveillance Cases
On an ordinary spring morning in April 2016, two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents quietly approached a polished, thirty-two-year-old engineer…
Hezbollah’s Two European Footprints: Ice Packs and Cash
On a scorching May afternoon in 2015, a dual Lebanese-Canadian citizen named Hussein Bassam Abdallah walked through the industrial outskirts…