Members in Hezbollah Beirut – Georges Chahine Iranian intelligence arrested Hezbollah financial director Hussein A. Fahs leaving his house with his wife and son following investigations into the embezzlement of millions of dollars. Financial corruption inside Hezbollah was discovered after Tehran sent an intelligence agency specialising in financial corruption to Lebanon to investigate Hezbollah’s accounts and financial statements, reported the Al-Jumhuriyah newspaper in Beirut on Thursday.
The investigators were sent following the fall of Hezbollah affiliated businessman Salah Ezz Al-Din and other members for illegal wealth amassing.
The group from Iranian intelligence carried out an inventory of the money spent on Hezbollah’s wired communications network and discovered the largest organised embezzlement operation, managed by the financial director Hezbollah leader Hussein A. Fahs and four others whose names are not known, according to sources.
More than $5mn was taken in less than two years. Fahs deceived everyone including Hezbollah leaders that he was a first class businessman with two companies.
According to sources more than 150 leaders in several regions were investigated, including institutions like the Beit Al-Mal, the treasury responsible for the budget, and the Al-Qad Al-Hassan” concerned with making facilitations for impoverished people
The most prominent person arrested was the son of a preacher in Bekaa accused of selling weapon, cooperating with drug leaders and thugs.