Terror organization: Hezbollah;

Status: Rayyan Moukalled is publicly listed as the administrative director of one of his father’s companies, the Lebanese Company for Information and Studies (LCIS), on its website and social media page;

Role: Rayyan Moukalled worked in 2021 with Hizballah official Muhammad Qasim al-Bazzal on issues related to finance. Rayyan functioned as an office assistant for his father on a range of issues, including the use of foreign bank accounts to facilitate illicit financial activity..

Location: Lebanon;

Also Known As: Rayyan Moukalled; (Arabic: ريان حسن مقلد); MAKLED, Ryan Hassan; MOUKALLED, Rayan; MUQALLAD, Rayyan;

Date of Birth: 25 Oct 1993;

Place of Birth: Lebanon;

Citizenship: Lebanon;

Activities:
the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating several individuals and associated entities for facilitating financial activities for Hizballah. At the center of this network is Lebanese money exchanger and so-called financial expert Hassan Moukalled, who plays a key role in enabling Hizballah to continue to exploit and exacerbate Lebanon’s economic crisis. Treasury is also designating CTEX Exchange, a money service business owned by Hassan Moukalled, in addition to Hassan Moukalled’s sons, Rayyan Moukalled and Rani Moukalled, who facilitate Hassan Moukalled and his company’s financial activities in support of Hizballah.

Hassan Moukalled in mid-2022 directed associates to cooperate with his older son, Rayyan Moukalled, on various financial projects. Rayyan Moukalled worked in 2021 with Hizballah official Muhammad Qasim al-Bazzal on issues related to finance. Rayyan functioned as

an office assistant for his father on a range of issues, including the use of foreign bank accounts to facilitate illicit financial activity. Additionally, Rayyan Moukalled is publicly listed as the administrative director of one of his father’s companies, the Lebanese Company for Information and Studies (LCIS), on its website and social media page.

As of mid-2022, Rani Moukalled and his brother Rayyan Moukalled were among several individuals authorized by their father, Hassan Moukalled, to engage in cash transactions on behalf of CTEX with the Central Bank of Lebanon. Rani is publicly associated with CTEX, working as its manager. He is also an employee at LCIS.

Rayyan Moukalled is being designated for having materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services to or in support of, Hassan Moukalled, a person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended

Lebanese Company for Information and Studies (LCIS) and Lebanese Company for Publishing, Media, and Research and Studies (LCPMR)

Today’s action also targets LCIS and LCPMR, two additional companies that are owned or controlled by Hassan Moukalled, who is the editor in chief for LCIS, and also serves as the chief economic editor of several websites associated with LCIS, including www.greenarea.me, imarwaiktissad.com, and Russia-Now. Hassan Moukalled is the director of the LCPMR which is co-located with LCIS.

LCIS and LCPMR are being designated for being owned, controlled, or directed by, directly or indirectly, Hassan Moukalled, a person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to E.O. 13224, as amended.