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Unmasking Hezbollah: Money Laundering in Europe (Part 3)
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Unmasking Hezbollah: Money Laundering in Europe (Part 3)

52 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Part three of DW's investigation into Project Cassandra follows the money into France. Since 2010, Hezbollah fighters have sought asylum there, drawn by a large Lebanese community and the freedom of movement across European borders. Paris becomes a hub for laundering profits from the cocaine trade, and the film traces how cash moves from South American cartels through European networks back to Lebanon. The DEA alerts French police, and the two agencies launch a new operation, Operation Cedar, named for the tree on Lebanon's flag. Investigators, prosecutors, and law enforcement officials describe the surveillance work and the legal obstacles that slowed the case, including diplomatic sensitivities around designating Hezbollah a terrorist organization. The episode closes out the series' account of how a militant group with a political wing in Lebanon built a financial network spanning three continents, using interviews with the agents who chased it and documents from the investigation itself to show how far the trail actually went.