BERN, Switzerland, June 24 (UPI) -- Swiss government investigators say al-Qaida might have used Swiss bank accounts as secret funding hubs.
Swiss federal lawyer Valentin Roschacher announced Thursday Swiss authorities plan to file three cases against terrorist funding suspects in the next three weeks, Swiss news agency SDA reports.
The only firm named so far in the investigation is the now defunct Nada/Al Taqwa, based in the Swiss canton Tessin. Nada Al/Taqwa is suspected of being a conduit through which money flowed from Switzerland and other countries to terrorist organizations.
One Saudi man, who acted as the head of a Saudi charity and has contacts both in Switzerland and the United States, is suspected of transferring millions of dollars through Swiss bank accounts to people with connections to al-Qaida.
Swiss authorities stopped one transfer of more than
$1 million to suspected terrorists at a bank in Geneva.
