Plotters Sold Drugs, Guns to Supply Terrorists, U.S. Alleges
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Three people were charged by federal prosecutors in New York with conspiring to sell heroin and buy weapons for Hezbollah, while a fourth separately was accused of scheming to sell drugs and guns for the Taliban.
Siavosh Henareh, 53, of Iran, and Cetin Aksu, whose age and nationality weren’t immediately available, are accused of conspiring to sell heroin to three confidential sources for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, according to an indictment. At least one of the sources was posing as an associate of Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based militant group designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. in 1997.