I 
115TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5035 
To require the President to determine whether Hezbollah should be designated 
as a significant foreign narcotics trafficker or a transnational criminal 
organization, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 15, 2018 
Mr. BUDD (for himself and Mr. ZELDIN) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To require the President to determine whether Hezbollah 
should be designated as a significant foreign narcotics 
trafficker or a transnational criminal organization, and 
for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Hezbollah Kingpin 
Designation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Since 2010, Lebanese-based Hezbollah has 
been linked with South American drug trafficking 
organizations. 
(2) The Drug Enforcement Administration’s 
‘‘Project Cassandra’’ has identified Hezbollah as a 
major supplier of cocaine into the United States. 
(3) On January 11, 2018, Attorney General 
Jeff Sessions announced the creation of the 
Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team to 
investigate individuals and networks providing sup-
port to Hezbollah’s narcoterrorist activities. 
(4) Michael Braun testified before the Com-
mittee on Financial Services of the House of Rep-
resentatives, on June 8, 2016, that ‘‘hundreds of 
tons of cocaine, over [a] 15-year period and move 
massive amounts of currency, hundreds of, millions, 
perhaps billions of dollars in currency around the 
world in the most sophisticated money laundering 
scheme that we have ever witnessed’’. 
(5) In 2011, the Drug Enforcement Adminis-
tration indicted Ayman Saied Joumaa, a Lebanese- 
Colombian dual national, for using a global network 
of companies operating out of Latin America, West 
Africa, and Lebanon to launder as much as 
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$200,000,000 a month in drug proceeds for Mexican 
and Colombian cartels. 
(6) The House of Representatives passed H.R. 
3329, the Hezbollah International Financing Pre-
vention Act, on October 25, 2017, to provide addi-
tional resources to enforcement agencies to counter 
Hezbollah’s other criminal enterprises including 
money laundering. 
SEC. 3. DESIGNATIONS REQUIRED. 
(a) KINGPIN DESIGNATION.—Not later than 120 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Presi-
dent shall, in accordance with the requirements for addi-
tional determinations under section 804(h)(1) of the Intel-
ligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (21 U.S.C. 
1903(h)(1)), determine whether Hezbollah is a ‘‘signifi-
cant foreign narcotics trafficker’’, as such term is defined 
for purposes of such section. 
(b) TRANSNATIONAL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION DES-
IGNATION.—Not later than 120 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to Con-
gress a determination whether to designate Hezbollah as 
a ‘‘transnational criminal organization’’, as such term is 
defined for purposes of the list of specially designated na-
tionals and blocked persons maintained by the Office of 
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Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treas-
ury. 
SEC. 4. ASSET REPORT. 
Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment 
of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury shall issue a 
report to the Committees on Financial Services and For-
eign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Com-
mittees on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and For-
eign Relations of the Senate containing an estimate of the 
total assets under direct or indirect control by Hezbollah- 
linked leaders of political parties or movements who are 
located in the United States. 
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