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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 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…