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Sana-Bell, a BMI business partner, sued BMI for transferring "at least $ 3,700,000 to BMI construction and BMI leasing, all of which was transferred to BMI Leasing without Sana-Bell's knowledge or permission." In 2000, Biheiri was held liable for about $ 2 million and BMI Leasing for $ 5,000. Emerson
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BMI was linked to the SAAR Network through the
International Relief Organization (IRO) and its financial affiliate Sana-Bell. IRO has been implicated in financial contributions to charities "suspected or convicted of financing terror," from the Horn of Africa Relief (HARA), to the
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pointed out that the "case raised the question of whether the sudden desire to show an interest in accounting for Sana-Bell's investments in BMI was designed to distance Sana-Bell from BMI in order to avoid awkward questions that might have been asked as part of the
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members, Mahmood Abu Saud and Gamal Attia, who encouraged
Biheiri to exploit the favorable conditions of the U.S. market and "to start up a financial corporation in the United States in the style of other Islamic financial entities like the
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investigations." In fact, the author reported that one of BMI employees had expressed concern that "funds the accountant was transferring overseas on behalf of BMI may have been used to finance the embassy bombings in Africa."
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testimony in 2003, Richard Clarke stated that "BMI's investor list reads like a who's who of designated terrorists and
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