The U.S. Treasury Department is approving 2 Lebanese siblings implicated of selling “dangerously jeopardized fuel” to Lebanon’s state energy business
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday approved 2 Lebanese bros who are implicated of selling “dangerously jeopardized fuel” to Lebanon’s state energy business.
The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control obstructed Raymond Zina Rahme and Teddy Zina Rahme from accessing U.S. bank accounts and the bigger U.S. monetary system. The siblings supposedly utilized their function as federalgovernment subcontractors to import polluted fuel that triggered “significant damage to Lebanese power plants.”
The polluted fuel apparently triggered more breakdowns at power stations throughout the nation and a increase in everyday electricalenergy cuts.
Since late 2019, Lebanon hasactually fallen into the worst financial crisis in its contemporary history, rooted in years of corruption and mismanagement by a political class that has ruled the nation giventhat the end of the 15-year civil war. Three-quarter