BEIRUT: Lebanon’s central bank froze all bank accounts belonging to Lebanese currency exchange house CTEX and its owner Hassan Moukaled on Thursday, days after the US Treasury sanctioned them over alleged financial ties to blacklisted group Hezbollah.
The central bank said in a statement that it also froze the accounts of two of Moukaled’s family members.
Meanwhile, Moukalled denied that he or his company CTEX have financial ties to Hezbollah and said he would mount legal challenges to US Treasury sanctions against him and the company.
He also told Reuters that the basis for the sanctions included false information.
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Lebanese central bank freezes accounts of money exchanger sanctioned by US
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Lebanese central bank freezes accounts of money exchanger sanctioned by US
- Bank accounts belonging to Lebanese currency exchange house CTEX and its owner were frozen
- Moukalled denied that he or his company CTEX have financial ties to Hezbollah
Israel’s Netanyahu says a Palestinian state in Gaza ‘will not happen’
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Tuesday that he would not allow the establishment of a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip, asserting that Israel would maintain security control “from Jordan to the sea.”
“I’m hearing that I will allow the establishment of a Palestinian state in Gaza — this hasn’t happened and it will not happen... I think you all know that the person who has repeatedly blocked the establishment of a Palestinian state is me,” Netanyahu said in a televised press conference.
“Israel will exercise security control from the Jordan to the sea, and that applies to the Gaza Strip as well.”
“I’m hearing that I will allow the establishment of a Palestinian state in Gaza — this hasn’t happened and it will not happen... I think you all know that the person who has repeatedly blocked the establishment of a Palestinian state is me,” Netanyahu said in a televised press conference.
“Israel will exercise security control from the Jordan to the sea, and that applies to the Gaza Strip as well.”
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