A charity connected to Prince Charles is now under fire after it was revealed that it received over one million dollars from the Bin Laden family.
As San Francisco Gate reports:
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Prince Charles is facing more questions over his charities after a newspaper reported that one of his funds accepted a 1 million pound ($1.2 million) donation from relatives of Osama bin Laden.
The Sunday Times reported that the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund received the money in 2013 from Bakr bin Laden, patriarch of the large and wealthy Saudi family, and his brother Shafiq. Both are half-brothers of the former al-Qaida leader, who was killed by U.S. special forces in Pakistan in 2011.
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The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund was founded in 1979 to “transform lives and build sustainable communities,” and gives grants to a wide variety of projects in Britain and around the world.
Charles, 73, has faced a series of claims about the operation of his charities. Last month the Sunday Times reported he had accepted bags of cash containing $3 million from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, the former prime minister of Qatar.
The London police are currently investigating a separate allegation which claims that the charity set up a scheme offering Saudi figures official British honors in exchange for cash.
Was Bin Laden really killed? He was very ill for a time staying with a Saudi Family of Royalty. We’ll positively never know.
Nothing surprises me any more.
Probably not too hard to draw a line directly from the Saudi’s to Joe LieDEN, at this point!
Not surprising! Royals not known for their high IQs.