- New York-based Standard Chartered Bank is being accused of financing Al Qaeda’s bomb-making operations in Afghanistan, according to a lawsuit filed by families of two U.S. military members killed by the terror group.
- The families of Wilbel Robles-Santa and Christopher Ward, both killed by improvised explosive devices in Afghanistan in 2013, filed the lawsuit in Manhattan federal court.
- The families allege that the bank provided financial services to the Fatima Group in Pakistan despite knowing it was supplying Al Qaeda with calcium ammonium nitrate, a primary component in IEDs.
- U.S. government officials had warned Standard Chartered Bank in 2013 to stop aiding terrorist attacks, but the bank’s response was deemed “utterly useless” according to court papers.
- The lawsuit claims that Standard Chartered Bank knowingly sacrificed American lives for its own profits, citing violations of the Anti-Terrorism Act. Read More
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