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''Dirty Money, Blood Money''
''Dirty Money, Blood Money''
===Sex Trafficking===
Several dominant figures in Hezbollah are involved in criminal activities.<ref>[https://www.ajc.org/news/setting-the-record-straight-on-hezbollah-full-report Setting the record straight on Hezbollah - full report], AJC.<blockquote> Along with these activities, several dominant figures in Hezbollah are involved in criminal activities, including the sex industry and human trafficking. One example is Ali Hussein Zeaiter, a Hezbollah operative responsible for criminal procurement and financing. In 2014, the U.S. Treasury declared him a terrorist operative because of his handling of companies to acquire drones used by Hezbollah in Syrian territory. In 2015, the U.S. Treasury announced sanctions on additional companies managed by Zeaiter in China and Lebanon for similar violations. Several months later, in 2016, the Lebanese authorities uncovered a large prostitution network of mostly Syrian women. Hezbollah claimed to have played a role in exposing the sex trafficking network, but authorities reportedly linked the network to Zeaiter.</blockquote></ref> In addition, "a member of Hezbollah confined in a Viennese prison was observed running a sex trafficking ring by means of his cell phone."<ref>Shelley, Louise. Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective. United States: Cambridge University Press, 2010,
[https://books.google.com/books?id=XY8uJoYkNBsC&pg=PA71 p. 71].</ref>
===Criminal funding===
===Criminal funding===