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“Major Banks Knowingly Funded Hezbollah Terror Operations: Suit”
by New York Post   
November 11th, 2014

Some of the world’s most powerful banks knowingly funded Hezbollah terror operations by concealing billions of dollars in transactions with their Iranian sponsors, a ​new ​Brooklyn federal lawsuit ​charges.

Dozens of victims of Hezbollah​ ​violence ​filed suit Monday against Barclays, HSBC, Credit Suisse, Standard Chartered Bank and Royal Bank of Scotland​ for purposefully “stripping” information from the deals​ allegedly​ to obscure the involvement of Iranian banks.

The suit comes on the heels of a landmark jury verdict in Brooklyn federal court that found Jordanian banking power Arab Bank guilty of ​conducting business with Hamas that helped fund terror attacks.

The new case ​was filed by the same attorney who scored that victory, C. Tab Turner​,​ of Arkansas.

The defendant banks “knowingly and unlawfully agreed to engage in ‘stripping’ hundreds of millions — and in some cases billions — of US dollars on behalf of Iran knowing that Iran was a designated state sponsor of terrorism,” according to the suit.

Eventually landing in Hezbollah’s hands, Iranian money aided in “planning and perpetrating the murder and maiming of hundreds of Americans in Iraq during the same time the conspiracy was proceeding,” according to the suit.

Each of the banks named in the suit has already paid massive fines for conducting illicit business with Iran and other sanctioned countries and criminal groups.

HSBC paid $1.9 billion, Barclays $298 million, Royal Bank of Scotland $100 million, Credit Suisse $536 million and Standard Chartered $340 million.

Now the relatives of those killed or injured in Hezbollah attacks want compensation for their trauma, according to court papers.

The suit refers to more than 60 lethal operations carried out between 2006 and 2011 by Hezbollah and other groups and allegedly financed by Iran.

Relatives of those killed and injured in an infamous assault on US military personnel in Karbala, Iraq, in 2007 are part of the lengthy list of plaintiffs.

That attack left five soldiers dead and t​​hree wounded.

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