OFAC Sanctions Hezbollah Accountants, Weapons Facilitator
The Office of Foreign Assets Control added three people and two companies to its Specially Designated Nationals List for providing financial services and facilitating weapons procurement for Hezbollah, the agency said Dec. 1.
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Adel Mohamad Mansour is the leader of AQAH, a Hezbollah-run "quasi-financial institution," OFAC said. Mansour allegedly used AQAH and his own accounts to conduct business with Hezbollah. OFAC also sanctioned Al-Khobara for Accounting, Auditing, and Studies, an entity run by Mansour and that provides financial and accounting services to AQAH and that employs two previously sanctioned people.
Another company, Auditors for Accounting and Auditing, was designated for being owned by Ibrahim Daher, who was designated in May 2021 for acting on behalf of Hezbollah in his capacity as the chief of its Central Finance Unit. Auditors' managing partner, Naser Hasan Neser, was also designated along with Hassan Khalil, a weapons trafficker.