Hezbollah’s CFO has fled over the border into Israel taking
with him large sum of stolen money, classified documents and
maps, local news media reported on Friday.
The news website, Now Lebanon, cited Hezbollah officials saying that the 29-year old telecommunication engineer,
Hussein Fahs, has crossed to Israel carrying
with him $5 million in embezzled money from the group.
Fahs is also head of Hezbollah’s operational communications network.
In September, Fahs, who is a native of southern Lebanon, was arrested along with four other Hezbollah members over the
suspicion of embezzling the group’s funds
and collaborating with Israel, Yoni Alpert’s Terror Watch reported. The operation to arrest the five was a
collaborative one between Hezbollah and
Iranian intelligence. Hezbollah, which has long been a
staunch ally to both Iran and Syria, officially became part of the Lebanese government in 2011.
According to Al-Joumhouria
newspaper, he was arrested while on his way to
an unknown destination by 20 Iranian intelligence officers at Beirut’s Hariri Airport. At the time it was
suspected that they stole at least $5
million in Iranian aid funds. Cases of
Lebanese nationals collaborating and spying for Israel are not new. On Tuesday, Imad al-Zein, a Lebanese Military
Tribunal Judge, issued eight arrest warrants
against Lebanese citizens charged of collaborating
with Israel, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported.
The eight arrested include
seven women and one man and were all charged
in absentia. They were also natives of southern Lebanon, a region known for being a Hezbollah stronghold. Since 2009, Lebanon has arrested more than
100 people on suspicion of spying for
Israeli intelligence, including high-ranking security and telecommunication officials, Nahar Net said.
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