SAUDI ARABIA MONITORING PAYMENTS BY LEBANESE, FOR HEZBOLLAH CONNECTION

Lebanese nationals living and working inside Saudi Arabia are reportedly complaining that money transfers, that they are sending to Lebanon, are taking three to four days to process. Apparently, Saudi compliance officers inn government are performing due diligence checks, to insure that neither the remitter, nor the recipient, of such payments, has any links to Hezbollah, or any other terrorist organizations.

Saudi Arabia designated Hezbollah as a terrorist entity in April; and some Lebanese nationals believed to be affiliated with Hezbollah have been expelled from a number of countries in the Gulf, including Saudi, where some Hezbollah terrorist financiers were allegedly operating.