| Her refusal resulted in in the High Court awarding a default judgment against her in 2005 | Controversies and allegations [ ] Alleged brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden [ ] This allegation came from high-profile people, book authors and well respected newspapers in the US and Europe such as and |
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| 2 billion, Bin Mahfouz ranked 24th in Arabian Business magazine's list of the world's most influential Arabs in 2008 | 5 million chateaux-style house, later named "Versailles," in the area of Houston |
In this report Khalid was listed as one of seven "main individual Saudi sponsors of al Qaeda.
26| Bin Mahfouz's lawyer stated: "This donation was to assist the US-sponsored resistance to the Soviet occupation of and was never intended nor, to the best of Sheikh Khalid's knowledge, ever used to fund any 'extension' of that resistance movement in other countries | The fraud charges were settled for 225 million in lieu of fines |
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| Khalid is the son of Salem Bin Mahfouz, a Saudi entrepreneur who rose from being a smalltime to becoming the founder of the NCB, the first private Saudi bank | UN designation [ ] There have been numerous allegations that Khalid bin Mahfouz has been named a terrorist financier by the |
The , however, passed a law preventing the judgments from being enforced by providing greater protection against libel judgments in countries whose laws are inconsistent with the freedom of speech granted by the United States Constitution.
| In 1990 Khalid bin Mahfouz acquired citizenship through inward-investment procedures | NCB senior officials vehemently deny the existence of this audit |
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| citizen based in New York, had not written or marketed her book internationally and refused to acknowledge the jurisdiction of the over her case, instead alleging that Mahfouz was using the for |
According to reports, high-placed Saudi businessmen transferred millions of dollars through NCB to charities operating as fronts for al-Qaeda.
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