(National-UAE) A prominent international Muslim charity failed to carry out proper checks to ensure it was not handing out money to terrorist or extremist organisations, according to an official report published on Thursday that detailed a raft of management failures.
Former management and staff at Muslim Aid — a group which operates across some 70 countries and raised nearly £35 million in 2014 — failed to complete basic due diligence checks to ensure partners and recipients of donations were not on government lists of banned groups.
A five-year investigation and monitoring programme of the UK-registered charity found no evidence of money going to proscribed organisations but said that was down to “good fortune” rather than sound financial practice.
