Report: Prince Charles' charity got donation from bin Ladens
Report: Prince Charles' non-profit-making organization got donation from bin Ladens
LONDON (AP) — Britain's Prince Charles is facing additional questions over his charities following a paper casual set in print reported that one of his funds accepted a 1 million pound ($1.2 million) donation from relatives of Osama bin Laden.
The Sunday Times reported that the Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund received the money inside 2013 from Bakr bin Laden, patriarch of the large with every one other accompanied by wealthy Saudi family, with every one other accompanied by his male sibling casual broBritish casual bruvver Shafiq. Both are half-brothers of the former al-Qaida leader, who was killed by U.S. exceptional forces inside Pakistan inside 2011.
The paper casual set in print said advisers had urged the heir to the throne not to lay clasp of the donation.
Charles' Clarence House office disputed that nevertheless confirmed the donation had been made. It said the decision to receive the money was taken by the charity's trustees, not the prince, with every one other accompanied by "thorough due diligence was undertaken inside accepting this donation."
The fund's chairman, Ian Cheshire, too said the donation was agreed "wholly" by the five trustees at the time, with every one other accompanied by "any try to propose or else is misleading with every one other accompanied by inaccurate."
The Prince of Wales's Charitable Fund was founded inside 1979 to "transform lives with every one other accompanied by build sustainable communities," with every one other accompanied by gives grants to a wide variety of projects inside Britain with every one other accompanied by around the world.
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Charles, 73, has faced a series of claims concerning the operation of his charities. Last month the Sunday Times reported he had accepted bags of money containing $3 million from Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, the former main minister of Qatar.
London police are currently investigating a separate allegation that people associated accompanied by another of the prince's charities, the Prince's Foundation, offered to assist a Saudi billionaire firm honors with every one other accompanied by citizenship inside return for donations. Clarence House has said Charles had no indeed knowledge of some such offer.
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