Hezbollah
United States v. Ali Farhat
Status: Ali Farhat: Charged, June 5, 2025
- District
- Eastern District of Virginia
- Docket number
- 1:25-cr-162
- Group named in DOJ releases
- Hezbollah
- Statutes
- Not stated in DOJ release
- First DOJ release
- June 5, 2025
Primary Sources
- Dual citizen indicted for using Lebanese business to support Hizballah, U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Virginia, June 5, 2025
Status and dates follow these DOJ releases. Docket details from CourtListener (RECAP).
Ali Farhat
- Status
- Charged (DOJ release, June 5, 2025)
- From the DOJ release:
According to the indictment, Ali Farhat, 59, owned and operated a Lebanese company, identified in court records as Company 1, that acquired electronics equipment in the United States and resold it to other entities located primarily in the Middle East and Africa.
- Age
- 59 (per DOJ release of June 5, 2025)
- Charges as described by DOJ
- conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and conspiracy to launder money
- Charged or arrested
- June 5, 2025
Cite: Middle East Forum, Islamist Terrorism Prosecutions, "United States v. Ali Farhat," accessed October 13, 2026, https://cases.meforum.org/case/us-v-farhat-2025/