One of the Defendants Allegedly Agreed to Acquire $9.5 Million Worth of Surface-to-Air Missiles and Other Weapons for Hizballah
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the extraditions of SIAVOSH HENAREH and CETIN AKSU from Romania, on charges of conspiring to provide narcotics and, in the case of AKSU, material support to Hizballah through an individual whom they believed to be an associate of Hizballah, but who was in fact, a United States Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), confidential source.
HENAREH, 57, a citizen of Iran, and AKSU, 49, a citizen of Turkey, arrived in the Southern District of New York today. They will be presented this afternoon in Magistrate Court and then arraigned before U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff.
