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DIFFERENT ANGLE by Kenneth Rijock
Financial Crime Consultant, for World-Check
Spain arrests two suspected Al-Qaeda money launderers
26 July 2007
Spanish National Police have detained two Syrian nationals, Bassan Dalati Satut and Samer Dabbas, and charged them with money laundering, document forgery, and collaborating with a terrorist organisation. These individuals are accused of creating real estate front companies that laundered euros contributed by members or supporters of radical Islamic organisations, including Al-Qaeda.
Details on the defendants:
Found in their residence were 120,000 euros, two mobile telephones, media documents on terrorism, and computer materials.
The defendants are believed to have laundered funds by investing it in housing construction, and then obtaining profits considered to be legitimate money, which was then transferred outside of Spain.
- Bassan Dalati Satut also known as Bassan Dalasi Satu [UID 45635], age 48, from Aleppo, Syria, the accused principal financial leader of a Spanish Al-Qaeda cell. He is believed to have succeeded convicted Al-Qaeda laundryman Mohammed Ghaleb Kalaji Zouaydi [UID 45732], who is presently serving a nine-year sentence for belonging to a Spanish-based Al-Qaeda cell accused of helping plan the 9/11 attacks on the United States. His original World-Check profile was created on 22 November, 2001. An individual, also named Bassan Dalati Satut a/k/a Abu Abdo, was acquitted in that case.
- Samer Dabbas [UID 672056], age 30, also from Aleppo, Syria.
Found in their residence were 120,000 euros, two mobile telephones, media documents on terrorism, and computer materials.
The defendants are believed to have laundered funds by investing it in housing construction, and then obtaining profits considered to be legitimate money, which was then transferred outside of Spain.
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