According to documents I obtained from Western security sources the Hamas terror organization has a secret foreign investment portfolio worth several hundred millions of US Dollars. welt.de/politik/auslan… @welt
The portfolio consists of 40 companies residing in Turkey, Saudi-Arabia, UAE, Sudan and Algeria. For years there were rumours about such a portfolio, which seem to be corroborated now by information found on a Hamas computer.
The computer contained trial balance sheets for the portfolio from 2008 till 2018 evidently used by Hamas for internal reporting purposes. The latest file which I obtained from May 2017 till January 2018 listed a booking value for the entire portfolio of 338 Million US Dollars.
Experts believe the real value to exceed half a billion. The balance sheet also contains coded references about 49 Million US Dollars that went from the portfolio into Hamas‘ coffers, an estimated 40 % of which went to military/ terror expenses.
According to my sources the center of Hamas‘ business activities used to be in Saudi-Arabia, but due to Saudi clamp down on Hamas activities the center of operations was moved to Turkey in the last three years and now is mostly grouped around the construction firm Trend Gyo.
Hamas controls these companies with Hamas operatives whose ties to the terror organization are kept secret or through local businessmen who act as straw men.
I owe thanks to @Levitt_Matt and @JSchanzer for their insights. They weren‘t able to verify the veracity of the documents I showed them, but they added valuable information and insights into Hamas finances
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