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11 April 2019

The Treasury Department "identified Lebanese national Kassem Chams and designated the Chams Money Laundering Organisation as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNT)... [and] an affiliated network of Hizbollah". National Security Advisor John Bolton, describing the designation targets as a "narco-terrorism money laundering network working for Hizbollah", added that "we will continue to impose maximum economic pressure on Iran, its terrorist arm, the IRGC and its proxies and criminal affiliates around the world". 

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