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Washington - Elie Youssef

Key Hezbollah Financier Faces 20 Years in Prison

Mohammad Ibrahim Bazzi. (Twitter)

A US federal prosecutor announced the arrest of a Lebanese-Belgian citizen considered a major financier of Iran-backed Hezbollah in the Romanian capital, Bucharest.

US Attorney Breon Peace in Brooklyn said that Mohammed Ibrahim Bazzi, 58, designated by the US as a “global terrorist” in 2018, when it offered $10 million for information about his whereabouts, transferred millions of dollars to Hezbollah over the years.

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