Sec. 201. Report on designation of Hezbollah as a significant foreign narcotics trafficker
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Congress makes the following findings: In 2008, after the two year Operation Titan run by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and Colombian authorities dismantled an international narcotics ring that smuggled cocaine into the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, and was run by Chekry Harb, also known as Taliban . According to lead prosecutor for the special prosecutor’s office in Bogota, Gladys Sanchez, The profits from the sales of drugs went to finance Hezbollah. .
In 2011, the Department of the Treasury blacklisted the Lebanese Canadian Bank as a primary money laundering concern, alleging that it is part of a drug trafficking network that profited Hezbollah by moving approximately $200,000,000 per month. In April 2013, when the Department of the Treasury blacklisted two Lebanese exchange houses, Kassem Rmeiti & Co. and Halawi Exchange Co., for laundering drug profits for Hezbollah, it stated that Hezbollah was operating like an international drug cartel, adding that the Halawi Exchange, through its network of established international exchange houses, initiated wire transfers from its bank accounts to the United States without using the Lebanese banking system in order to avoid scrutiny associated with Treasury’s designations of Hassan Ayash Exchange, Elissa Exchange, and its Lebanese Canadian Bank Section 311 Action…Money was then wire transferred via Halawi’s banking relationships indirectly to the United States through countries that included China, Singapore, and the UAE, which were perceived to receive less scrutiny by the U.S.
Government. . The Department of Justice reported that 29 of the 63 organizations on its FY 2010 Consolidated Priority Organization Targets list, which includes the most significant international drug trafficking organizations
(DTOs)threatening the United States, were associated with terrorist groups, and noted with concern Hezbollah’s international drug and criminal activities. It is the sense of Congress that— Hezbollah meets the criteria for designation as a significant foreign narcotics trafficker as set forth in the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (21 U.S.C. 1901 et seq.); and the President should so designate Hezbollah as a significant foreign narcotics trafficker. Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees— a detailed report on whether the Hezbollah meets the criteria for designation under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act ( 21 U.S.C. 1901 et seq. ) as a significant foreign narcotics trafficker; and if the President determines that Hezbollah does not meet the criteria for designation under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act as a significant foreign narcotics trafficker, a detailed justification as to which criteria have not been met. The report required by paragraph
(1)shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex.
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