The Bosnian authorities are probing the financial activities of a Sarajevo-based company founded by a Saudi businessman suspected of having links to the al Qaeda network, a local newspaper reported Saturday.
Yassin Al-Kadi, suspected by the United States of having funnelled money to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda, in December 2002 founded the Risala trading company in Sarajevo, the Nezavisne Novine daily, which is published in Banja Luka, reported.
Bosnia's financial police launched an investigation into the company's financial activities a month ago, an unnamed international official told the paper.
"They are checking the accounts of certain people as well as financial transfers of the Risala company, under the UN Security Council resolution 1267 obliging all states to cut financial channels of the al Qaeda terrorist network," the official was reported as saying.
The company has founded a school in Sarajevo that operates under the same name, the daily said.
Neither Bosnian authorities nor representatives of the company were available for comment Saturday.
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