A charitable fund founded by Britain’s Prince Charles, the Prince Of Wales, received a donation from Osama Bin Laden’s family in 2013, a UK media report claimed on Sunday.
Osama Bin Laden was the mastermind behind the 9/11 attack, 2001. It was one of the major terrorist attacks in which a series of airline hijacking and suicide attacks were committed in the United States. The attack against New York City and Washington DC caused massive death and destruction.
According to ‘The Sunday Times’, “Prince Charles met with the AL Qaeda founder’s half-brother Bakr in London and allegedly agreed to accept GBP 1 million”.
The reports claim that several senior advisers urged Charles’s heir to return the money, but his Clarence House office has denied that the royal was personally involved in the decision.
“The Prince of Wales’ Charitable Fund (PWCF) has assured us that thorough due diligence was undertaken in accepting this donation”, a Clarence House Spokesperson told ‘Sky News’.
“The decision to accept was taken by the charity’s trustees alone, and any attempt to characterise it otherwise is false,” the spokesperson said.
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In this regard, the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund members said the PWCF trustee carefully considered the donation from Sheik Bakr Bin Laden in 2013.
The Sunday Times claims in its reports that Osama’s family was Saudi’s wealthy family, and he also had a degree in Civil Engineering and Public Administration.
Talking about the charity fund, The Prince of Wales was founded in 1979 and awards grants to UK-registered non-profit organisations for projects in the UK and other countries.
