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Sheffield United in Trouble

cafckev
cafckev Posts: 2,914
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So it's being investigated that Sheffield Utd took a loan from the well known lender of money the Bin Laden family

 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/16/sheffield-united-funded-3m-loan-osama-bin-ladens-family-court/

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  • Rob7Lee
    Rob7Lee Posts: 9,593
    So RD congratulates Sheff U...... says it could of been us in a round about way ....... then turns out some funding, allegedly, was from a slightly harder than soft terrorist ...... hhmmmmm
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    Rob7Lee said:
    So RD congratulates Sheff U...... says it could of been us in a round about way ....... then turns out some funding, allegedly, was from a slightly harder than soft terrorist ...... hhmmmmm
    Yes.  I thought our very own Belgian Forest Gump might have a tenuous grip on the concept of terrorism...
  • PaddyP17
    PaddyP17 Posts: 13,035
    This is so disingenuous. The Bin Laden family is absolutely massive and Osama was excommunicated a long time before his death.

    This isn't really news.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,840
    Osama Bin Laden was an Arsenal fan anyway
  • NornIrishAddick
    NornIrishAddick Posts: 9,623
    The family used to control the Bin Laden Group.

    Bin Laden Group are a seriously big Saudi (mostly Civil Engineering & construction) company, one of many that were threatened financially by the Kingdom's recent unwillingness to pay for work when oil prices fell, and subsequently effectively taken over by the Saudi Ministry of Finance (which, IMHO, says more about Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's desire to grab power and wealth to himself and his cronies than anything else).

    There was a significant amount of money involved in the transfer of part ownership.  

    It's about as controversial as sponsorship from Bayer, Hugo Boss, Ford, etc. (possibly less, as there is no evidence of the Saudis having profited in the German slave labour-based economy of c1935-1945). 
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    Do they perhaps want to look at who has funded Chelsea for the past decade 
  • AFKABartram
    AFKABartram Posts: 57,824
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    They'll come good.
  • eaststandmike
    eaststandmike Posts: 14,956
    Greenie said:
    They'll come good.
    They have come good, this is just a blip that will get sorted.
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  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    There's a blinding documentary on Netshit at the moment about Hitler's nephew. 
  • IdleHans
    IdleHans Posts: 10,957
    At least OBL would pass the fit and proper test
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,013
    They’re massive.

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