Sec. 202. Report on designation of Hezbollah as a significant transnational criminal organization
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Congress makes the following findings: Hezbollah is engaged array of illicit activities, from counterfeiting currencies, passport documents, to stolen automobile rings and other illicit activities. In 2002, authorities in Charlotte, North Carolina arrested members of a cell run by Mohammed and Chawki Hamoud and convicted them on various charges, including funding the activities of Hezbollah from proceeds of interstate cigarette smuggling and money laundering. In 2006 the Department of the Treasury designated operations of Assad Barakat, treasurer for Hezbollah, as providing material support for a foreign terrorist organization and noted that Barakat had engaged in mafia-style shakedowns and threatened TBA (triborder area) shopkeepers who are sympathetic to Hezbollah’s cause with having family members in Lebanon placed on a and also was Hezbollah blacklist if they did not pay their quota to Hezbollah involved in a counterfeiting ring that distributes fake U.S. dollars and generates cash to fund Hezbollah operations .
In 2009, Paraguayan authorities arrested Moussa Hamdan and three other individuals for selling fraudulent passports and trafficking in counterfeit money and sporting goods, illegally obtained consumer electronics and automobiles and then using the proceeds to buy arms for Hezbollah. In October 2011, a group of businessmen pled guilty to attempting to ship electronics to a shopping center in South America that the Department of the Treasury had designated as a Hezbollah front.
A June 2014 threat assessment report by Canada’s Integrated Terrorism Assessment Centre indicated that Hezbollah members in Canada are involved in organized crime. It is the sense of Congress that— Hezbollah meets the criteria for designation as a significant transnational criminal organization under Executive Order 13581 (76 Fed. Reg. 44757); and the President should so designate Hezbollah as a significant transnational criminal organization. Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress— a detailed report on whether the Hezbollah meets the criteria for designation as a significant transnational criminal organization under Executive Order 13581 (76 Fed. Reg. 44757); and if the President determines that Hezbollah does not meet the criteria for designation as a significant transnational criminal organization under Executive Order 13581, 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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Report on designation of Hezbollah as a significant transnational criminal organization
Fed. Reg.76 FR 44757
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