The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury (OFAC) has included 6 people and 8 companies on its list on charges of financing Hezbollah.
The charges specifically target the Lebanese businessman Ahmed Jalal Reda Abdullah, “the financial intermediary” of Hezbollah, as well as 5 people connected to him and 8 of his companies in Lebanon and Iraq.
OFAC indicated in a statement that the persons and companies targeted by Washington are, respectively:
Ahmed Jalal Rida Abdullah | Person |
Ali Rida Abdullah | Person |
Hussein Ahmed Jalal Abdullah | Person |
Hussein Rida Abdullah | Person |
Hussein Kamel Attia | Person |
Joseph Elia Haidamous | Person |
Mukhtar Products Corporation | Company |
Focus Media SAL | Company |
United General Contracting | Company |
United General Holdings Corporation | Company |
United General Offshore Corporation | Company |
United Corporation General Services | Company |
United International Exhibitions LLC | Company |
Focus Media SAL Offshore Corporation | Company |