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Lebanese Businessman Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering for Hizbullah
(Washington Post) Spencer S. Hsu - Kassim Tajideen, 63, a Lebanese Belgian citizen who headed a multibillion-dollar commodities shipping empire from Beirut, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Washington to committing roughly $1 billion in unlawful transactions since 2009 to help finance Hizbullah. Tajideen was arrested in Morocco in March 2017.