BEIRUT (AP) — A high-ranking U.S. Treasury official said during a visit to Beirut Monday that Washington is pushing Lebanese officials to crack down on the flow of funding to Hezbollah before next year’s parliamentary elections and to prosecute people involved in a quasi-bank affiliated with the group.

Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence John K. Hurley, who came with a delegation of Treasury and the National Security Council officials, said the U.S. believes that the Lebanese militant group is trying to bring $1 billion into the country by the end of the year, but “exactly how many dollars they have brought in, we don’t know.”

Hurley said that Lebanese authorities have made “great progress” in cracking down on illicit flows of funds but that the U.S. wants them to do

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