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The Charcoal Trader’s Other Business
When Zoom Zoom Motors S.A.R.L. filed its founding paperwork in Lebanon around 2014, the corporate registry described a conventional business:…
The Half-Hour Before the Sanctions
In 2019 the US Treasury sanctioned Kassem Chams and his licensed exchange house in Chtaura, Lebanon, alleging drug-proceeds laundering and…
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…
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…