Yasin al-Qadi

Businessperson, Person

1955 –

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Who is Yasin al-Qadi?

Yasin Abdullah Ezzedine al-Qadi is a Saudi Arabian businessman listed by the United States government as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. One of more than 39 people and entities suspected of giving financial support to the September 11 attacks, he has been defended by friends and associates as a philanthropist.

A multi-millionaire from Jeddah, Qadi trained as an architect in Chicago, IL. He is the son-in-law of Sheikh Ahmed Salah Jamjoom, a former Saudi Arabian government minister with close ties to the Saudi royal family.

The UN placed sanctions against Qadi in 1999 and 2000, when he was named by United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1267 and 1333 as a suspected associate of Osama bin Laden's terror network, al-Qaeda.

On 12 October 2001, the U.S. Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control ordered his assets in the United States to be frozen on suspicion of links to the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings and the September 11 attacks. The European Union also applied sanctions to Qadi.

In response, Qadi's lawyers brought two lawsuits now considered landmarks in international law: Kadi I and Kadi II. The case for which he is best known, a 2008 decision by the European Court of Justice, Kadi & Al Barakaat Int’l Found. v. Council of the E.U. & Comm’n of the E.C., "challenges the core framework of UN terrorist sanctions and forces UN member states to tackle difficult legal questions or else face possible collapse of the UN’s terrorist sanctions regime."

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Born
Feb 23, 1955
Cairo
Also known as
  • Yasin Abdullah Ezzedine al-Qadi
  • Shaykh Yassin Abdullah Kadi
  • Yasin A. Kahdi
Nationality
  • Saudi Arabia
Profession

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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