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The Al Taqwa (Arabic for “Fear of God”) network of financial companies was set up in 1988 by prominent members of the Muslim Brotherhood, most notably Al Taqwa’s chairman and co-founder, Youssef Nada. Later, Swiss Islamic convert Ahmed Huber, a vocal admirer of Adolf Hitler, was hired because the company needed at least one Swiss citizen on its board. Another co-founder was François Genoud, one of the key managers of Nazi assets after the second world war who later attained notoriety as the publisher of Joseph Goebbels’ diaries.
Al Taqwa Bank was targeted early on by the United States because of its alleged links to terrorism. The U.S. also targeted it because its allegedly terror-related funds indirectly filter through the banking system of the United States, through its use of correspondent accounts. Al Taqwa Bank holds such accounts with the Swiss Banca del Gottardo, which in turn holds correspondent accounts with Citibank and the Bank of New York.
Al Taqwa counted two family members of Osama Bin Laden among its shareholders, and was once sued by a third. The family itself countered that this cannot “rationally be imputed to connote any hint of support for Osama.”
In 2001, authorities in the Bahamas cancelled Al Taqwa’s bank license there due to new laws designed to crack down on money laundering. These laws would require Al Taqwa to maintain a physical presence in that country, which the bank declined. Later that year, Al Taqwa offices in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, along with the homes of Youssef Nada, Ahmed Huber, and one other Taqwa director, were raided by law enforcement agencies after being put on the Bush administration’s “terrorist financiers” watch list.
Discovered in Nada’s home was a document titled “The Project”. Nada claimed to have no knowledge of who wrote it or how it came into his possession. The document describes a plan to establish “the reign of God over the entire world” by developing a framework of religious, educational and charitable organizations in the western world. It also recommends that readers engage in the “study of the centers of power locally and worldwide, and the possibilities of placing them under influence” and “nurtur[e] the sentiment of rancor with regard to Jews.” No charges were pressed.