OFAC Adds Hizballah Official to SDN List
The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control announced sanctions on a senior member of Hizballah’s External Security Organization (ESO), which planned terrorist attacks near Lebanon, Treasury said in a July 19 press release. Salman Raouf Salman was added to OFAC’s…
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Specially Designated Nationals List, the agency said. Hizballah’s ESO, the group’s “elite unit” run by U.S.-sanctioned Talal Hamiyah, carries out Hizballah’s international missions, the press release said. Salman is responsible for the group’s foreign operations in Lebanon and terrorism-related activities elsewhere, including in Buenos Aires, Panama, Colombia and Brazil, Treasury said.