The U.S. Department of Treasury has alleged that a Lebanese bank helped drug traffickers launder money and financed Lebanese group, Hezbollah, The Wall Street Journal reports. Lebanese Canadian Bank has been accused of laundering proceeds from drug trafficking through accounts at the lender, which ends up financing weapons, logistics and training for Hezbollah’s terror activities.
The schemes used to launder the money includes used car sales in the U.S. and Lebanese Canadian Bank accounts in U.S. banks to purchase consumer goods from Asia for sale in Latin America. The measures proposed by the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, which if approved, would ban U.S. financial institutions from doing business with the Lebanese bank.
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