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The Trader Who Could Not Escape His Name
The proposed residence was designed to resemble a private penitentiary: electronic sensors wired to every exterior doorway, closed-circuit cameras streaming…
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…
The Rada Family’s Trading Routes: Pineapple, Charcoal and the Long Shadow of AMIA
One shipment was stopped in El Salvador. Another reached Belize carrying pineapple juice that had gone bad. In the summer…
The Barakat Family’s Three Borders
When Brazilian federal police cornered Assad Ahmad Barakat in Foz do Iguaçu on September 21, 2018, the sprawling international operation…