| Illustration: Pete Ellis |
There are few topics Abdul Hafiz Mansour will not address, but ask him if his line of work regularly makes him the target of threats and he will likely fall silent.
That should come as no surprise. As the head of Lebanon’s Special Investigation Commission (SIC), the country’s anti-money laundering unit, Mansour is seen as an enemy by those who have sought to use Lebanon’s financial institutions to hide illicit funds. Just last year, the SIC froze more than 60 bank accounts and investigated hundreds of suspicious transactions.
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