WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday blacklisted an American branch of Saudi Arabia's Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, accusing the group of financing terrorist activities.
The Treasury Department said investigators had found direct links between the U.S. branch of Al Haramain, headquartered in Oregon, and al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. It also accused the group of money-laundering and violating tax laws.
The department said it had added the U.S. branch and one of its directors, Suliman Al-Buthe, to its Specially Designated Global Terrorist list of accused global terrorism financiers.
It also added an Al Haramain branch in Comoros to the list, which requires U.S. banks to check their records and freeze any assets they find belonging to the offices.
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