Prince Charles’ charity accepted 1 million pound donation from Osama Bin Laden’s household: Report

A Charitable Fund based by Britain’s Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, accepted a donation from slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s household in 2013.

Prince Charles’ charity fund accepted Bin Laden household donation (File Photo: Reuters)

HIGHLIGHTSPrince Charles’ charity accepted 1 million pound donation from Osama Bin Laden’s householdThe Prince of Wales’s charitable fund obtained the donation in 2013Osama bin Laden was the mastermind behind the September 11 terror assaults of 2001

A Charitable Fund based by Britain’s Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, accepted a donation from slain al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden’s household in 2013, a UK media report claimed on Sunday.

According to ‘The Sunday Times’, Prince Charles met with the Al Qaeda founder’s half-brother Bakr in London and allegedly agreed to just accept GBP 1 million.

The report claims that a number of of the senior royal’s closest advisers urged Charles inheritor to Britain’s throne to return the cash. However, his Clarence House workplace has denied that the royal was personally concerned within the determination.

“The Prince of Wales’ Charitable Fund (PWCF) has assured us that thorough due diligence was undertaken in accepting this donation,” a Clarence House spokesperson told ‘Sky News’.

“The decision to accept was taken by the charity’s trustees alone and any attempt to characterise it otherwise is false,” the spokesperson mentioned.

Meanwhile, the Prince of Wales’ Charitable Fund mentioned the donation from Sheik Bakr bin Laden in 2013 was rigorously thought of by PWCF trustees on the time.

“Due diligence was performed, with info sought from a variety of sources, together with authorities. The determination to just accept the donation was taken wholly by the trustees. Any try and counsel in any other case is deceptive and inaccurate,” PWCF mentioned.

Osama bin Laden was the mastermind behind the September 11 terror assaults of 2001, which killed practically 3,000 individuals within the US. ‘The Sunday Times’ claims in its report that Charles’ assembly with Bakr, the patriarch of the rich Saudi household, occurred two years after Osama bin Laden was killed by US particular forces in Pakistan.

The Prince of Wales’ Charitable Fund was based in 1979 and awards grants to UK-registered non-profit organisations for initiatives within the UK, Commonwealth and different nations.

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