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| One of Hezbollah’s most important members arrested in Brazil | |
| 2018-09-22 | |
[JTA] One of Hezbollah’s most wanted members, Assad Ahmad Barakat, was placed in durance vileKeep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! near Brazil’s border with Argentina ...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita... and Paraguay on Friday. Barakat has been labeled by the U.S. Treasury as one of the Lebanese terrorist group’s main financiers. He is part of the Barakat Clan, a criminal organization known for its links to Hezbollah. Barakat was arrested in Foz de Iguazú, in southern Brazil. That triple border, or Triple Frontier as it is known as, has been linked with Hezbollah terrorist activity for decades, specifically as a source of the group’s funding. In July, the Barakat Clan’s assets were frozen by the Financial Information Unit of Argentina. On Aug. 31, Argentine Judge Rubén Darío Riquelme ordered Barakat’s international capture. Barakat was also sought by Paraguay and Brazil. Barakt, who was born in Leb, is also accused in Paraguay for identity fraud and for omitting information about his nationality status.
In 2004, U.S. authorities designated Assad Ahmad Barakat as one of Hezbollah's "most prominent and influential members." They said he had long served as a treasurer for the group and was an associate of the then-financial director of Hezbollah, a Death Eater group based in Leb. It was not immediately known if Barakat had a lawyer. Brazilian federal police said in a Friday written statement that the country's Supreme Court authorized his arrest after Paraguayan authorities issued a warrant late in August. Police also said Argentine authorities accused him of laundering $10 million through a casino in the border city of Puerto Iguazu. Barakat was previously imprisoned in Paraguay from 2002 to 2008 on charges of tax evasion. After his release, Brazilian police said, Barakat lived in Brazil, and carried out business activities in Paraguay, Argentina, and Chile. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 During the final years of the Stroessner regime in Paraguay (1987-88) the Paraguay consulate in Beirut sold more than 3,000 Paraguay passports to Shiite elements. The result was an explosion of Muslim immigrants who settled in the Tri-Border region. As for Barakat, he owned and operated the biggest store in Paraguay's Ciudad del Este (nee Ciudad Stroessner). Notice was finally taken of the expanding and radical Muslim population with the bombing of a Jewish center in Buenos Aires. |
| Posted by: Hupusing Claitch6798 2018-09-22 08:59 |