Three Florida businessmen were arrested for smuggling video games to a mall in Paraguay linked to Hezbollah.
Federal agents say the mall served as a front for financing Hezbollah. Americans are prohibited from doing business with the Lebanon-based group under a post-9/11 law.
The businessmen, who sold thousands of Sony PlayStation 2 consoles and Sony digital cameras during 2007 and 2008 to the mall in Paraguay, have been identified as Khaled T. Safadi, Ulises Talavera and Emilio Gonzalez-Neira, according to the Miami Herald. — jta