On 26 March 2014, he was indicted by a court in New York on charges including 'conspiracy to kill officers and employees of the United States', 'conspiracy to acquire and transport anti-aircraft missiles', 'conspiracy to commit money laundering', 'conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States' and 'conspiracy to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organisation'.
[1] In April 2014, Fayad was arrested alongside Fawzi Jaber and Khaled Marabi in a Prague hotel by undercover agents of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, who were posing as members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Fayad and his co-conspirators had met with the undercover DEA agents in Ghana and Warsaw as part of a two-year sting operation named Project Cassandra.
[4] On 4 February 2016, Prague's Municipal Court ordered his release after Justice Minister Robert Pelikán refused to allow his extradition to the United States.
According to then-Defense Minister Martin Stropnický, his extradition was refused as part of a deal to release five Czech citizens who had been kidnapped in Lebanon in July 2015 by Fayad's half-brother and other Hezbollah operatives.