The US Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned 10 people it said were part of a network that moved cash to Lebanon’s Hezbollah and re-designated the group under a terrorism authority over what Washington described as its service to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force.
Treasury said the network used couriers traveling on commercial flights between Lebanon, Türkiye, the UAE and Iran to move up to hundreds of millions of dollars outside the formal financial system, helping Hezbollah obtain foreign currency and evade sanctions.
The department said Turkish businessman Yunus Alper Yilmaz managed the courier network, while nine others collected, coordinated or transported cash intended for Hezbollah.
Treasury also re-designated Hezbollah as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist, saying the group acted “for service to the Iranian regime under the command of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force.”
It said the move was based on what it described as the IRGC-QF’s coordination of Hezbollah attacks and involvement in directing the group’s political decision-making.
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