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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
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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
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Thirty Minutes to Find a Translator

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

El Dorado airport terminal in Bogotá
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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…

General cargo being handled beside a ship and trucks at the port of Cotonou.
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Ayman Joumaa’s Business Between the Cartels

Ayman Joumaa was designated by the US Treasury in 2011 and indicted the same year on charges of coordinating cocaine…

General cargo being handled beside a ship and trucks at the port of Cotonou.
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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…

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Project Cassandra: The Investigation That Outlived Its Team

Inside the fortified, windowless operations bunker of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Operations Division in Chantilly, Virginia, a whiteboard once…