Hezbollah funding from Qatar exposed by whistle-blower contractor

Last updated on September 11th, 2021 at 02:38 pm

A whistleblower claimed he earned tens of thousands of euros from Qatar to hide a dossier documenting Hezbollah ‘s country support.

German press reported that a total payment of €750,000 (Dh3.1 million) was offered to the security consultant to suppress the information he had collected on Qatar’s illicit support for terrorism.

The man, identified solely as Jason, said he spent a number of months in negotiations in 2019 with a Qatari emissary in Europe.

A German commercial enterprise executive who was mentioned to have witnessed some of the conferences said information had been surpassed to the Qataris that provided “transparency” in the “fight in opposition to positive critical, anti-Israeli networks”.

Six meetings took location between the marketing consultant and the Qataris before the talks broke down. Jason reportedly believed that he should get hold of a charge of €10m from Qatar to buy the proof he had compiled.

He said the records presented Qatar an probability to purge “shady human beings in their personal ranks”, including a top-ranked commonplace in Doha.

In a familiar sample tracked to Qatar’s funding for the Muslim Brotherhood, the cash to Hezbollah was funnelled via the country’s charity sector. Outfits like Qatar Charity have bankrolled a range of corporations politically active for the duration of Europe.

In the first half of of 2019 the leak of the dossier in the German press would have been fantastically embarrassing for Qatar as it pressed forward with its development programme for hosting the 2022 World Cup.

With Hezbollah on respectable terror lists in the US and Europe, the country’s diplomatic standing would have been compromised, according to Jason’s account of his conversations with the Qatari envoys.

Qatar spends tens of hundreds of thousands of euros in Europe to help institutes and organisations that have drawn issues over the threat of radicalisation.

Doha keeps pleasant ties with Hezbollah’s client Iran, which in turn has suffered a blow after European security corporations exposed Tehran’s brain community run by using its embassies in Germany, Belgium and France.

(thenational)