Beirut-Sana
The Lebanese army intelligence arrested 17 persons who worked in the area of money transfer, illegal money exchange, and terrorist financing.
The Lebanese Army Command said in a statement issued today that "by following one of the terrorist financing files, the Intelligence Directorate arrested a Syrian who has been living for a long time in Lebanon and is working to transfer funds illegally and has sent money transfers outside Lebanon in favor of a terrorist."
The statement added, “Through the confessions made by this terrorist about ways to transfer money from Lebanon, the Intelligence Directorate has determined to identify a group of people (Lebanese and Syrians) working in the field of illegal money transfer and exchange, some of them under the guise of legal offices and companies using an unlicensed electronic platform. ”
And after the identification of these persons and their whereabouts, and through an accurate qualitative operation, a force from the Intelligence Directorate implemented simultaneous raids in 12 different Lebanese regions, during which they arrested 16 people (13 Syrians and 3 Lebanese) and seized computers and cellular devices used by them in the transfer operations in addition to To large sums of money. ”
The statement indicated that the investigation is still ongoing with the detainees under the supervision of the competent judiciary, and the arrest of the rest of those involved is being worked out.
