Got Two in Boston
Charles Johnson
Thu May 12, 2005 at 3:46 pm PDT • Views: 394
Former officers of Islamic charity indicted on federal charges. (Hat tip: billindc.)
BOSTON — Two former officers of an Islamic charity were indicted on federal charges accusing them of lying to authorities investigating the charity’s alleged ties to terrorist organizations.
Emadeddin Muntasser, the former head of Care International, and Muhammed Mubayyid, the group’s former treasurer, were arrested Thursday following their Wednesday indictment on charges of concealing information from federal agencies, conspiring to defraud the United States, and making false statements to the FBI. The charity is now defunct. …
Muntasser, 40, of Braintree, the owner of the Logan Furniture chain and a Libyan national, was a founding president of the Boston-based charity Care International.
Mubayyid, 40 of Shrewsbury, Care’s treasurer, has been employed by Ptech Inc., a Quincy software firm that was in the news two years ago after federal agent searched its offices as part of an investigation into funding of terrorist groups. No charges were ever brought against Ptech or its officers.
Mubayyid donated $360 to the Alkifah Refugees Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., according to a receipt obtained by The Investigative Project. The center was named by federal prosecutors as the center of the conspiracy to bomb the World Trade Center in 1993.
Care International says in its promotional materials that it was formed to help war orphans, widows and refugees in Muslim nations. The organization, which is not affiliated with the global relief group CARE International, has been scrutinized because of its links to groups that support terrorism.
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