Two men and two women were arrested as alleged members of a criminal organization suspected of financing the Islamic organization Hezbollah through transfers of cryptoassets, in an operation carried out by the Federal Police through several raids in the provinces of Cordova and Santa Fe.
The procedure, in which several weapons were seized among other items, was carried out by members of the Anti-Terrorist Investigation Unit Department of the Superintendency of Federal Investigations. According to force sources, The case was initiated by the intervention of the Office of the Attorney General for Economic Crime and Money Laundering (PROCELAC)following a report prepared by the Financial Information Unit (UIF).
At work they warned about cryptocurrency operations between a citizen of Colombian nationality which was located in the province of Córdoba and a virtual wallet that would have been marked as suspicious of terrorist financing activity, listed by the Foreign Assets Control Officein English “Office of Foreign Assets Control” (OFAC), run by a Syrian citizen in Lebanon and linked to the Hezbollah.
The Police arrested four people in Córdoba and Santa Fe in a case for alleged financing of Hezbollah
According to what was learned, a total of 34 virtual asset trades in USDT carried out by the person investigated between March and June of this year, which would be indirectly linked, that is, 4th degree transactions, with another wallet that would have been marked by the North American monitoring tool. “Chainalysis”, as suspected of terrorist financing activity.
It is estimated that the volume of funds operated over the course of two years would amount to the sum of 1,800 million pesos, both in credits and debits.. The acting federal judge of San Francisco, Sergio Pinto, with this information, ordered seven raids to be carried out in the Cordoba town of La Porteña and one in the town of Vila, province of Santa Fe.
During the raids, two men and two women were arrested. In addition, Three shotguns, a pistol, cartridges and various ammunition were seizedin addition to money in virtual wallets, notebooks and notebooks with notes, a CPU, notebooks and seven cell phones.
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Israel assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
The arrests occur in parallel to the massive operation that Israel carry forward in the Lebanon against the Islamic organization in which, days ago, its leader was assassinated, Hassan Nasrallah, considered the most powerful man in the country, who had lived in hiding since the last war between Israel and the Islamist movement in 2006. Last Friday the Israeli army managed to locate and kill him.
Hezbollah confirmed on Saturday that its secretary general was killed the previous day in a violent Israeli bombing in a southern suburb of Beirut, a stronghold of the pro-Iran movement. Nasrallah, murdered at age 64, He has appeared few times in public since the war that pitted his movement against the Israeli army in mid-2006. and his place of residence was always a secret.
But despite the secrecy, the head of the powerful Shiite militia received visitors, including the leaders of allied Palestinian movements, who published photos of the meetings. The journalists and personalities who met with him reported being driven by Hezbollah in security cars to a location that was difficult to identify.
Source: Ambito
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