Anime News

Anime related News

Japan news

News stories from Japan

General News

News from around the world

Gaming News

Gaming News

Cosplay

Cosplay pictures

Home » General News

PS2 Funds Hezbollah

Submitted by Zero on March 2, 2010 – 9:20 pmNo Comment

anime girl gaming

I never knew the PS2 was filled with so much evil; seriously a man in Florida who exported PS2s to a Paraguayan mall  is being indicted for 11 counts of terrorism. PS2 is serious business…

The suspect is Khaled Safadi of Doral, a Miami suburb. He’s a Paraguayan citizen with U.S. residency. The indictment alleges that Safadi sold $720,000 worth of PS2s and cameras to this store, using false addresses on shipping documents to conceal their origin. Two other men were charged in connection with the shipments.

Safadi’s out on bail of $1.55 million for the time being. At a hearing his lawyer held up a PS2 and declared, “It’s a children’s toy. He is being accused of shipping a children’s toy to Paraguay.”

Perhaps, but Safadi’s larger problem is the fact that the recipient has been singled out by the U.S. Treasury Department as a funding source for Hezbollah, designated by the government as a terrorist organization. It’s on a list of entities banned from transacting business in the U.S. So the feds take a dim view of shipments going to them, especially if they have falsified originating addresses.

It’s understandable that his actions were indeed criminal but, 11 counts of terrorism and $1.55million for bail does seem harsh.

Source

Leave a comment!

Add your comment below, or trackback from your own site. You can also subscribe to these comments via RSS.

Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam.

You can use these tags:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

This is a Gravatar-enabled weblog. To get your own globally-recognized-avatar, please register at Gravatar.