Lebanese citizen Qassem Hegazi was arrested in Paraguay by Paraguayan forces at the request of the US Embassy after the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control listed an order for Hegazi's arrest

He is still in detention and has not been deported to USA yet.

USA has been targeting since early this decade all Shia businessmen in America and Africa, in an alleged campaign to stop money laundering.

His brother, Shadi Higazi, wad investigated and charged in 2004 with similar crimes, which were eventually dropped
https://www.upi.com/Top\_News/US/2021/08/25/United-States-sanctions-Paraguayan-money-laundering-network/6471629864690/

Mazen Al-Atat was detained in France for 3 years without trial because he refused to make a deal with the Americans in which he recognizes the non-existent link between hezbollah and money laundering Colombian drug money. (1/2)

https://ejmagnier.com/2021/08/26/france-giving-in-to-us-accusation-of-hezbollah-and-complicit-in-illegal-deportation-of-a-lebanese-citizen/

...The DEA officials wouldn’t accept less than an explicit accusation and involvement of Hezbollah in the entire operation. This sets a precedent for the French judiciary, which appears to have been affected by the submission of French politicians to US pressure. (2/2)

Special Forces in the ISF confiscated a large hidden underground reservoir illegally storing fuel, owned by Jamal Othman, in Al Badawi.

In a social campagin by Israeli state-funded TV:

“Every baby aborted is a soldier not born.”

In a new bust from the properties of Lebanese Forces party official Ibrahim Sakr, the Lebanese army found a tank containing 54,000 liters of diesel and a 12-ton cooking gas tank. The seizures were confiscated.

https://laf.page.link/2kTy

10's of people gathered in downtown Beirut's Gibran Khalil Gibran Park to protest cancer patients' inability to obtain medication required for their treatment owing to drug shortages in the country.

About 220 thousand beneficiaries per month receive remittances from their families abroad through Western Union.

The total value of incoming transfers from abroad per month is about 120 million USD.

70% of these transfers are worth less than $500.

The Lebanese Ministry of Energy: "Emirates National Oil" wins the first tender to replace 84,000 tons of crude oil from Iraq (for something useful in Lebanon).

Full details: https://bintjbeil.org/post/44936/

Minister of the Displaced in the caretaker government Ghada Shreim:

- The average rate for the financial aid card will be 93 US dollars, and it can reach 127 dollars, depending on the number of family members

- Will benefit whoever has less than 10 thousand dollars in the bank

After reports that OMT will pay WU money transfers half USD half LBP, the Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh temporarily froze his decision to take the USD (OMT; BOB FINANCE...), provided that a decision is issued later regarding this. (Al-Akhbar)

Basically, the Central Bank is looking to buy USD, forcing people receiving USD from their families abroad through WU or similar money transfer offices to sell half of their received balance at a rate decided by the central bank.

They did this early in 2020, but then they forced people to sell the whole balance at a rate 1/4th of the actual black market rate.