Report: Hezbollah earmarked $600M for aiding displaced, not $200M
Following the uproar regarding Hezbollah allegedly receiving $200 million from Iran, a pro-Hezbollah daily quoted local, Arab and international security agencies as saying that “that the actual figure far exceeds that amount.”
“The (displaced) support plan detailed by the Chairman of Hezbollah's Executive Council, Sheikh Ali Daamoush, is backed by funding estimated at around $600 million,” al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Moreover, the daily said Central Bank Governor Karim Souaid “informed the Americans that financial channels operating in Lebanon -- whether through the Central Bank, commercial banks, money transfer companies, or exchange offices -- did not record transactions of this magnitude within a short timeframe.”
The U.S. State Department had strongly denied that Iran was able to send $200 million to Hezbollah, while noting that Hezbollah gets funds from “criminal activities,” such as “drug trafficking and partnerships with drug cartels in Latin America.”
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