One such financier was Assad Ahmad Barakat, currently serving a six and half year sentence in Paraguay for tax evasion following his arrest in La CiudaddelEste.
On the triple frontier border town of CiudaddelEste in Paraguay, pirated Chinese Apple, Microsoft and brand name apparel are often smuggled across the border into Brazil for sale nationwide.
He was also involved in a counterfeiting ring that distributed fake American dollars throughout the TBA. Some believe that Barakat was a client of Mugniyah, who is thought to have established terrorist cells in la CiudadDelEste.