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In recent decades, Hezbollah has established itself not only as one of the world s leading terrorist groups and Lebanon s effective master, but also as a prominent transnational crime syndicate. Hezbollah s criminal activities range from drug trafficking ....
SHARE On a clear, crisp spring day in Paris, a couple sat down at the popular Cafe de L’Avenue on the broad, tree-lined Boulevard Haussmann. For the well-groomed Lebanese woman, the goat’s cheese flan and the onion soup on the menu of classic French staples was less alluring than her companion’s bag. Inside was more than €214,000 ($260,200) – the purported proceeds of a drug-smuggling operation that the middle-aged businesswoman had promised to launder through European banks, in return for a 20 per cent cut. “My gift,” the woman, Iman Kobeissi, told her dining partner as she took possession and promised in future to rent an apartment in a nice part of Paris so their meetings would go unobserved. ....