The Iran-linked Handala hacking group has placed a bounty of $250,000 for the beheading of Iranian-American lawyer and activist Elica Le Bon and Canadian politician and activist Golsa "Goldie" Ghamari.
The group claimed to have leaked their LA and Ottawa-based home addresses to its “CJNG” partners, according to social media posts by the two women.
CJNG may refer to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), which, according to Reuters, has maintained operations in the US despite the US and Mexico targeting senior members of the cartel.
Experts previously told Iran International that CJNG was among the many Iran-linked groups spreading insecurity across Latin America.
Money-laundering connects global criminal finance
“There are longstanding money-laundering and trafficking ecosystems that connect Latin American cartels, Iranian state-aligned networks and global criminal finance,” investigative journalist Sam Cooper told Iran International.
The threat against Le Bon and Ghamari came after they both appeared on Piers Morgan Uncensored. The hacker group claimed the women “laughed like hyenas and called for war on our great leader” during their appearance on the show.
Le Bon claimed the language in the email she received from the group replicated language used by the Executive Producer and host of the left-wing show The Young Turks, Ana Kasparian.
“In a video, she used this term “laughing like hyenas” and cropped the video to misrepresent that Goldie and I were laughing at war, when in reality, we were laughing at Cenk (Turkish-American Political activist Cenk Uygur) blaming every conflict in history on Israel,” Le Bon claimed on X. “Because of her misleading video and incitement, the CJNG have been commissioned to kill us both.”
Both Le Bon and Ghamari were contacted by The Jerusalem Post for comment.