{"id":5502,"date":"2010-03-03T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"man-exports-ps2s-to-fund-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5502-man-exports-ps2s-to-fund-terrorism","title":{"rendered":"Man exports PS2s to fund terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"

United States Federal Authorities have revealed that a man who had been exporting PlayStation 2’s to a shopping centre in Paraguay may have been using this vehicle to fund terrorist organisation Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

Khaled Safadi of Doral, a Miami suburb – Paraguayan citizen with US residency, has been indicted on eleven counts of funding terrorism. According to Kotaku<\/a> the man sold $720 00 worth of PS2 consoles to the store using false addresses and documents to conceal their origin.<\/p>\n

For the time being Safadi is out on bail of $1.55 million. In a court hearing his lawyer held up a PS2 console and declared “It’s a children’s toy. He is being accused of shipping a children’s toy to Paraguay.”<\/p>\n

It all seems a little fishy. If the shipments were really as innocent as Safadi’s lawyer might have the jury believe why then would the defendant have falsified addresses and documents to a recipient which the US government had earmarked for terrorist activities?<\/p>\n

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Paraguayan man accused of funding Hezbollah with consoles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}