Hezbollah ‘financier’ pleads guilty to evading US sanctions

The State Department in May 2018 had declared Bazzi to be a “specially designated global terrorist” and offered a $10 million reward for information leading to his capture. In February 2023, he was arrested in Romania and extradited to the US. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has said Bazzi “has provided millions of dollars to Hezbollah over the years, generated from his business activities in Belgium, Lebanon, Iraq and throughout West Africa” (Read more at Arabnews).