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29 October
October 29, 2021 No Comments

Lebanon Designations: Specially Designated Nationals List Update

The following individuals have been added to OFAC’s SDN List: AL-ARAB, Jihad (Arabic: جهاد العرب) (a.k.a. EL ARAB, Jihad; a.k.a. EL ARAB, Jihad Ahmad), France Street Pavilion Building, Villa Jihad el Arab, Downtown Mina el Hosn, Beirut, Lebanon; DOB 06 Jan 1963; POB Beirut, Lebanon; nationality Lebanon; Gender Male; Passport LR0073000 (Lebanon) expires 25 Jul […]

18 October
October 18, 2021 No Comments

Press Release 16/10/2021

The ALPI PAC strongly condemns the heavily armed  demonstration by Hezbollah, Amal Movement and their allies against the judicial system investigating the 2020 Beirut portexplosion. It was an attempt to target peaceful neighborhoods whereby 8 civilians lost their lives and 38 were injured.Such attacks contravene the law, the Lebanese Armed Forces and Lebanon sovereignty, and […]

6 November
November 6, 2020 No Comments

Treasury Targets Corruption in Lebanon

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Gibran Bassil (Bassil), the President of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) political party and Member of Parliament (MP), pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13818, for his role in corruption in Lebanon. E.O. 13818, which builds upon and implements the Global Magnitsky […]

29 October
October 29, 2020 No Comments

Treasury Sanctions Companies Selling, Purchasing, and Enabling Iranian Petrochemical Products

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated eight entities for their involvement in the sale and purchase of Iranian petrochemical products brokered by Triliance Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (Triliance), an entity designated by Treasury in January 2020. These entities, based in Iran, China, and Singapore, engaged in transactions facilitated […]

8 September
September 8, 2020 No Comments

Treasury Targets Hizballah’s Enablers in Lebanon

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned former Lebanese government ministers Yusuf Finyanus and Ali Hassan Khalil, who provided material support to Hizballah and engaged in corruption. These designations underscore how some Lebanese politicians have conspired with Hizballah at the expense of the Lebanese people and institutions. The […]

7 January
January 7, 2016 No Comments

Treasury Sanctions Hizballah Financier and His Company

The U.S. Department of the Treasury targeted a key Hizballah support network by designating Hizballah financier and member Ali Youssef Charara and Spectrum Investment Group Holding SAL, a telecommunications company of which Charara is the Chairman and General Manager.  Charara has received millions of dollars from Hizballah to invest in commercial projects that financially support […]

23 October
October 23, 2013 No Comments

The Origins of Hezbollah: Bombing of the US Embassy in Beirut

Thirty years ago, three spectacular attacks in Beirut over an 18-month period announced the debut of a potent new force in Lebanon—the Shiite Hezbollah militia— and defined its relationship with the United States for years to come. The October 1983 bombings of Multinational Force bases took the lives of 241 Americans and 58 French. Beirut, a city […]