The US broadens anti-Hizballah sanctions to 6 individuals, 7 firms

The United States has added seven entities and six individuals to a list of Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) and issued sanctions against them for financial ties to Hezbollah, the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said in a press release on Friday. The six sanctioned individuals included five Lebanese and one Iraqi, most of them linked to Al-Inmaa Engineering and Contracting. The seven entities are firms based in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Lebanon and Ghana.