08-15-2006, 08:34 AM
Is this one of those "South Asian" charities?
EXCLUSIVE: 'THEY USED QUAKE CASH'
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Intelligence services in the UK and Pakistan are now trying to trace the whereabouts of £50million, including quake donations. They fear some of it may have been used to fund terrorism.
The Sunday Mirror has also learned that the father of the "key suspect" in the jet bomb plot is linked to one of the quake charities.
It is also claimed that many of the 23 suspects had travelled to terror training camps in Pakistan while posing as volunteers working in refugee camps following the October 2005 quake.
The alarm over the charity cash was first raised two months ago when Britain tipped off the Pakistan authorities when they noticed a £50million transfer of funds from several British charities to troubled Kashmir province.
The money, allegedly sent through Barclays Bank, went to three individuals at three different banks in Kashmir - Saudi Pak Bank, Standard Chartered and Habib Bank.
Some of the cash was collected by three British nationals - one a builder, the others described as businessmen. They were subsequently arrested.
One of the British charities being investigated is Crescent Relief (London), based in Dagenham, Essex.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
EXCLUSIVE: 'THEY USED QUAKE CASH'
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Intelligence services in the UK and Pakistan are now trying to trace the whereabouts of £50million, including quake donations. They fear some of it may have been used to fund terrorism.
The Sunday Mirror has also learned that the father of the "key suspect" in the jet bomb plot is linked to one of the quake charities.
It is also claimed that many of the 23 suspects had travelled to terror training camps in Pakistan while posing as volunteers working in refugee camps following the October 2005 quake.
The alarm over the charity cash was first raised two months ago when Britain tipped off the Pakistan authorities when they noticed a £50million transfer of funds from several British charities to troubled Kashmir province.
The money, allegedly sent through Barclays Bank, went to three individuals at three different banks in Kashmir - Saudi Pak Bank, Standard Chartered and Habib Bank.
Some of the cash was collected by three British nationals - one a builder, the others described as businessmen. They were subsequently arrested.
One of the British charities being investigated is Crescent Relief (London), based in Dagenham, Essex.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->