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Investigations and enforcementNetwork studyProcurementUnited States

The Shipment and the Missing Name

Investigators can follow fentanyl from a chemical supplier to a payment and a tested shipment.…

A collection of U.S. dollar banknotes
Money launderingMoving the moneyNetwork studyUnited States

What Happened to the Other Dollars?

A $200 million monthly estimate became one of the most durable numbers in accounts of…

Hassan Nasrallah during a September 2019 interview
Currency exchangeInvestigations and enforcementLebanon and SyriaProfile

Thirty Minutes to Find a Translator

A Lebanese money changer said the allegations were false. Hezbollah’s leader said drugs were forbidden.…

Adel al-Jubeir in October 2018
Case fileInvestigations and enforcementMexicoUnited States

The Cartel Hitman Who Wasn’t There

In a Mexican hotel room in July 2011, Manssor Arbabsiar thought he was negotiating the lethal apex of a geopolitical…

HSBC Tower and Soho Mall, Panama City
Case fileMoney launderingPanamaProfile

The Waked Case: An Empire Under Sanctions, a Laundering Plea, and a Disputed Hezbollah Link

On a humid Sunday afternoon in May 2016, hundreds of white-clad retail clerks, warehouse laborers, and corporate administrators poured onto…

Cargo ship entering the Port of Santos
Investigations and enforcementNetwork studyTriple Frontier

Prison Gangs and Middlemen: Following the PCC–Hezbollah Trail

When Brazilian police pulled over a nondescript passenger car on a sun-baked highway in February 2008, the panic inside the…

Simón Bolívar International Airport in Venezuela
BrokerageMoving the moneyNetwork studyVenezuela

Venezuela’s Brokers: The Networks That Outlasted Maduro

When private executive jets taxied across the tarmac of Caracas’s Maiquetía airport, the passengers boarding in the Caribbean dusk were…