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Alleged Hezbollah financier Saleh Assi takes indirect boost from US sanctions

By Olivier Liffran

Published on 20.10.2021 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

The prominent Kinshasa figure is under US sanctions for his role as a financier to the Shia movement in Lebanon. As a result, some banks that lent tens of millions of dollars to the businessman are unable to recover their debt.

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