The US authorities, via the U.S. Division of State’s Rewards for Justice Program, has provided $10 million for data that might result in the arrest of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Motion, in any other case referred to as Hamas.
In a press assertion issued by the Division of State on Friday, it stated that it was providing a reward of as much as $10 million for data resulting in the disruption of the monetary mechanisms of Hamas.
The recognized financiers are Abdelbasit Hamza Elhassan Khair, Amer Kamal Sharif Alshawa, Ahmed Sadu Jahleb, Walid Mohammed Mustafa Jadallah, and Muhammad Ahmad ‘Abd Al-Dayim Nasrallah.
Profile of Abdelbasit Hamza Elhassan Mohamed Khair, “Hamza,” and others
Hamza is a Sudan-based Hamas financier who has managed quite a few corporations in Hamas’s funding portfolio and was beforehand concerned within the switch of just about $20 million to Hamas, together with funds despatched on to senior Hamas monetary officer and U.S.-designated Specifically Designated International Terrorist (SDGT) Mahir Jawad Yunis Salah.
The community utilized by Hamza to launder cash and generate income for Hamas consists of Sudan-based Al Rowad Actual Property Growth, which the U.S. Division of the Treasury designated as an SDGT in Could 2022. Hamza additionally has longstanding financing ties to al-Qa’ida and Usama bin Laden-linked corporations in Sudan.
“Amer Kamal Sharif Alshawa, Ahmed Sadu Jahleb, and Walid Mohammed Mustafa Jadallah are Hamas operatives and are a part of Hamas’s funding community in Türkiye,” the division stated.
“Türkiye-based Alshawa is the Chief Govt Officer (CEO) for Pattern GYO and has served as a board member on a number of Hamas funding portfolio corporations.
“Türkiye-based Jahleb serves because the Hamas funding portfolio secretary and coordinates varied actions for Hamas-controlled corporations and Hamas officers.
“Türkiye-based Jadallah serves on the boards of a number of funding portfolio corporations.
“Muhammad Ahmad ‘Abd Al-Dayim Nasrallah is a longtime Hamas operative with shut ties to Iranian entities. He has been concerned within the switch of tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} to Hamas, together with to Hamas’s army wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassim Brigades.
“On October 18, 2023, the U.S. Division of the Treasury designated all 5 people as SDGTs beneath Govt Order 13224, as amended, which targets terrorist teams and their supporters.”
Hamas was designated as a international terrorist group by the US in 1997.
The group on Tuesday had its key chief Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri, popularly referred to as Abu Muhammad, and a few of its different leaders killed in an Israeli air assault in Beirut, Lebanon.