On charge of supporting terrorism – judicial investigation opened against brother of the Emir of Qatar in the United States
U.S. federal prosecutors are investigating ties between terrorist groups and Khalid bin Hamad al-Thani, the half-brother of Qatar’s ruler, according to documents uncovered by the Associated Press and interviews with two people familiar with the investigation.
A grand jury investigation from New York’s southern district focused on whether Khaled al-Thani provided money and supplies to al-Nusra Front, al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria, according to AFP.
The Qatari embassy said it needed more information before it could comment on the reported investigation.
A London court case also accuses members of the Qatar National Bank’s board of directors of sending remittances informally or authorized, which were channeled directly to Jabhat al-Nusra.
The court said the cases were being sent under orders from Tamim’s half-brother, Khaled bin Hamad Al Thani, who previously served on the board of directors of the Qatar National Bank.
But this case was not the first episode of the Qatari monarchy’s intimidation practices. In 2019, U.S. lawsuits unveiled the authoritarian treatment and death threats against Americans behind the half-brother of Qatar’s emir.
An American lawyer filed a lawsuit against Khaled bin Hamad Al Thani; For firing his bodyguard from work and for threatening to kill him after he refused orders to kill two people, as well as for detaining and torturing his doctor, who forced him to work, and holding him in a building until he threw himself from above it to suffer from a persistent disability.
Lawyer Rebecca Castañeda said that the half-brother of the Emir of Qatar tried to force his American guard Matthew Pitard to kill two people, and when he refused to fire him from work and threatened to kill him too.
According to the court case papers, the second person represented by the same lawyer is Matthew Allende, who was working as a doctor for the brother of the Emir of Qatar during his drinking.
Khaled bin Hamad was forced to work 36 hours at a time, it said, and when he refused a detention order at a residential complex and made a gun threat, he was forced to flee and jumped 18 meters.
Not only that, Prince Khalid Al-Thani is accused of committing the murder of an Indian employee by allegedly insulting his wife. This came in statements by Rebecca Castaneda, a lawyer defending the plaintiffs against the brother of the Emir of Qatar in cases pending before the American judiciary.
Qatar is working to pay bribes to foreign courts in order to disregard the crimes committed on its part and not to open the many terrorism cases it condemns and condemns Emir Tamim bin Hamad.
If things get out of hand, Qatari names and organizations are thrown in to distance the suspicion from the Emir, as the British newspaper The Times revealed in an earlier report, when it talked about a conspiracy organized by Doha to obstruct justice through bribery and intimidation of witnesses in a case filed against the Bank of Qatar.
The newspaper said the British High Court was informed that these steps were taken in an attempt to protect the Emir of Qatar (Tamim bin Hamad) from being held accountable for terrorist financing during the Syrian war.
