Breaking News on Terrorism

Recently it has become known from the three-year investigation of one of the most influential banks in the Near East activity, that the Saudi businessmen transferred tens millions dollars to Hamas, “Islamic Jihad ” and other Palestinian groupings which used a part of money for the organization of acts of terrorism against the Israeli citizens.
Los Angeles Times informs that the Ministry of Justice of the USA has begun investigation against the New York branch of bank, which checks bank’s communications with the Palestinian groupings in autonomy. The bank is suspected in financing an infrastructure of terror and services of terrorists-condemned men who arranged acts of terrorism in Israel.
The American and Israeli families, whose relatives were killed in result of acts of terrorism, have submitted the claim of several millions dollars against the bank. It is told in the claim that the bank translated 5,300 dollars to each family of the terrorist-condemned man involved in acts of terrorism against the Israeli purposes.
The bank’s management denies participation in financing terror. It is also spoken in the official application that money was forwarded on humanitarian needs and economic support of inhabitants of the Palestinian autonomy.
However in 2005 the bank has agreed to pay 24 million dollars of the penalty for infringement of antiterrorist laws to the federal government as it could not represent the report on suspicious transactions.