| Charged With
Hawala Money Laundering Al
Zubaidi Is Detained With
Father In Iraq Cited
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Feb 1 – For operating an
informal money transmitting
system known as a hawala,
Mohanad Al-Zubaidi was
arrested and detained on money
laundering charges on February
1, 2024. Inner City Press was
there.
Al-Zubaidi
was brought before U.S.
District Court for the
Southern District of New York
Magistrate Judge Robert W.
Lehrburger.
The prosecutor
emphasized that his father is
in Iraq and that a
co-defendant, who he didn't
name, has a plane ticket to
Turkey.
The just
unsealed indictment names also
Shaker Saleh Mohammed Hauter
and Abdulkader Noori Hamza,
neither in detention as of
February 1 at 6 pm.
Judge
Lehrburger cited these foreign
ties, and that his children
are not yet school age, as
factor leading him to detain
Al-Zubaidi.
The case
is US v. Al-Zubaidi, et al,
24-cr-51 (Castel / Lehrburger)
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