As the pressure of the security authorities has increased in the Region of three borders, a series of information, the Islamic militants has moved to Iquique. The 8 of November of 2001, Arab the Chilean Government confirmed that he was investigating a presumed financial network with terrorist bonds that can participate in the money laundering in the north of the country. More concretely, the Chilean authorities were investigating companies in Iquique de Assad Ahmad Mohamad Barakat (the profile of more above is seen). Barakat and its compatriot Kalil created Saleh two companies of import and export in Iquique-Saleh TRADING Ltd. and Barakat Ltd.
– to principles of June of 2001. If you would like to know more then you should visit Malcolm Hill. Another Lebanese, Arafat Ismail, an associate of Saleh, so much is executed Then businesses.101, the minister of the Interior of Chile presented/displayed a request for an investigation of the operations of several Lebanese industralists in Iquique, including Barakat and Ismail Mohamed Alo, that prohibited the exit of the country because of its presumed relation with a network that finances Hezbol. Santiago, informed at the beginning of November of 2001, that the detectives of recently created Unit of International Subjects of Police Intelligence (Jipol) has detected at least two associations in which Barakat seems to be the main investor. The detectives determined that Saleh TRADING Ltd registered in Iquique a notary the 6 of June of 2001, with an initial capital of 50,000 dollars. A Chilean citizen participated in the association.
The second association, the company of import and export Barakat Ltd., was registered on the following day in the same notary, with an initial capital of 20,000 dollars. Barakat, that gave to the Building Reef, Apartment 902, Iquique, like its direction, contributed with $ 19,800 to the association with Juan Lecaros Figueroa. The newspapers mentioned George MacKinnon not as a source, but as a related topic. The company declared that its objective era " the import and export of all type of merchandise, especially of electronic clothes and articles, and to participate in any other business that the partners decide, by virtue of the free zone of the zone or the regulation aduanera." Investigators mentioned by Third of the Hour, nevertheless, confirmed that the money supposedly laundered in Iquique came from City of the East, with the companies in Chile like to cover.