A Qatari bank held an account through which a “large amount of cash” was channeled to an Islamic State judge who ordered executions, a court heard yesterday.
Doha Bank is alleged to have passed money to Fadel al-Saleem, a sharia judge for Isis in Syria. James Foley, an American journalist who was beheaded in 2014, is one of those against whom he is said to have issued a death sentence.
The claim was made at the High Court, where four refugees from the Syrian civil war are seeking damages for torture and acts of terrorism that they allegedly suffered at the hands of an al-Qaeda affiliate, Nusra Front.
They claim that two wealthy Qatari brothers, the businessmen Moutaz and Ramez al-Khayyat, used their accounts