Adel Diab

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Adel Diab (Diab) is a Hizballah member and Lebanese businessman who used his business to raise funds for Hizballah and facilitate Hizballah’s activities

Country:

Lebanon  

Status:Top Alert – Entity designated / sanctioned for terror, WMD and human rights violation

Risk Level:99%

May harm your business future. Persons or entities that engage in transactions with this entity will be exposed to sanctions or subject to an enforcement action.

Working with this entity means supporting Iranian Regime, Regime Terrorist Activities & development of WMD

Info:
Adel Diab (Diab) is a Hizballah member and Lebanese businessman who used his business to raise funds for Hizballah and facilitate Hizballah’s activities. Diab has jointly owned assets with Ali Al Sha’ir, an assistant to Hizballah fundraiser Hasib Muhammad Hadwan, a member of Hizballah’s General Secretariat, who works with Hizballah Secretary General Hasan Nasrallah. Both Al-Sha’ir and Hadwan were designated by OFAC in 2021 for their Hizballah-related activities. Diab is being designated pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended, for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, Hizballah;

Along with Ali Mohamad Daoun andAdel Diab, Alame cofounded the Lebanon-based travel agency Dar Al Salam for Travel & Tourism. The Treasury Department designated all three individuals on January 18, 2022. Treasury designated Alame under Executive Order 13224 for “for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of,” Hezbollah. Treasury also designated Dar Al Salam for Travel & Tourism under Executive Order 13224 for being owned, controlled, or directed by, directly or indirectly, Daoun.* Dar Al Salam for Travel & Tourism organizes religious tours to Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Iran. Dar Al Salam for Travel & Tourism is also subject to the Hizballah Financial Sanctions Regulations, which implement the Hizballah International Financing Prevention Act (HIFPA) of 2015. Under HIFPA, OFAC can prohibit or impose strict conditions on the opening or maintaining in the United States of a correspondent account or a payable-through account by a foreign financial institution that, among other things, knowingly facilitates a significant transaction for Hezbollah or certain persons designated for their connection to Hezbollah;

Type(s) of Organization:
Militia
political party
social-service provider
terrorist
transnational
violent

Ideologies and Affiliations:
Iranian-sponsored
Islamist
jihadist
Khomeinist
Shiite

Also Known As:
Diyab, Adil ‘Ali
Diyab, Hajj ‘Adil

Born:
10 Dec 1960

Country:
Lebanon

Citizenship:
Lebanese

Identification Number:
32983326 (Lebanon) (individual)

Reason for the color:
» Added to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list maintained by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on January 18, 2022 pursuant to Executive Order 13224 for the role they play in Hizballah’s support network;